Quantum Computers, Slime Mold & Music — Eduardo Miranda on Creativity & Healing
Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Discover the power of sound and music, how paralyzed musicians play together through brainwaves, how slime mold and quantum devices creates living music, and why scientific humility matters for healing. Join us for an extraordinary conversation with Professor Eduardo Miranda, a globally-recognized composer and biocomputing pioneer at the University of Plymouth's Interdisciplinary Center for Computer Music Research.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Discover the power of sound and music, how paralyzed musicians play together through brainwaves, how slime mold and quantum devices creates living music, and why scientific humility matters for healing. Join us for an extraordinary conversation with Professor Eduardo Miranda, a globally-recognized composer and biocomputing pioneer at the University of Plymouth's Interdisciplinary Center for Computer Music Research.
In this episode of Entangled Health, you will learn how Miranda's team built living biocomputers from slime mold organisms, discovering how these single-celled creatures behave as memristor, resistors, capacitors, and logic gates. You will understand how to compose music with living matter itself, and gain insight into the profound lesson learned when recent research overturned his most celebrated hypothesis.
We will explore quantum music and AI creativity, learning how algorithms and consciousness intersect in ways that challenge our assumptions about intelligence and creativity. You will hear stories from Miranda's opera "Lampedusa", a work inspired by particle physics, Shakespeare, and an invented language. You will understand how music, stripped of linguistic meaning, communicates emotion and wholeness in ways medicine alone cannot measure. Eduardo shares some inspiring stories from composing with living organisms to the boundaries of AI and Brain Computer Interfaces to restore human connection.
You will learn what intelligence, creativity, and life truly are at the boundaries of science and art. You will gain mentorship insights on building resilience, embracing failure, and creating innovation. Perfect for technologists, healthcare professionals, musicians, neuroscientists, creative entrepreneurs, and anyone curious about the future of human flourishing. We also touch the potential of vocal biomarkers.
Keywords: brain-computer interface, biocomputing, quantum music, neuroscience, music therapy, AI creativity, slime mold computing, healing, consciousness, innovation, learning.
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More resources for Eduardo:
University’s profile, up to 2019: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/iccmr/eduardo-miranda
CLOT Magazine interview: https://clotmag.com/sound/eduardo-miranda-deciphering-the-possibilities-of-machine-made-creativity
Brain-Computer Music Interface:
The violinist won an MBE from the Queen because of my BCMI work: https://x.com/royalfamily/status/940597211037134848?lang=es
About the opera “Lampedusa”:
One of the acts - https://vimeo.com/331262882
Biocomputer Music:
https://starts-prize.aec.at/en/biocomputer-rhythms/
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The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest speaking in their personal capacities and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of their respective employers, organizations, committees (including IEEE), or companies.
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This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The discussion regarding lithium isotopes, biology, and mental health is based on theoretical quantum chemistry and physics, not clinical medical advice. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. The discussion regarding lithium isotopes, biology, and mental health is based on theoretical quantum chemistry and physics, not clinical medical advice. Nothing in this episode should be taken as a recommendation to alter medication or treatment plans. Always seek the advice of your physician or qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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