Towards A New Physics Of Living Systems and Consciousness

[Prima Materia]

Physicist and physician Dr. Anita Goel has designed the equivalent of the double slit experiment in a living system, to test if the nanomachines that read and write DNA could operate quantum mechanically. In this interview with Hans Busstra, Goel talks about her experiment and explores the new theoretical framework it could lead to: a new physics to understand life, living systems and consciousness. Hans Busstra interviewed Dr. Goel after her presentation at the Science of Consciousness Conference in Barcelona (7 October 2025), this full presentation in which she describes her experiment in detail can we watched here: • 2025 TSC - Barcelona Plenary 10 - Quantum... Dr. Anita Goel is a physicist, physician, and pioneering nanotechnology entrepreneur whose work bridges quantum physics, biomedicine, nanotech, and AI. She is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Nanobiosym Research Institute and Nanobiosym Diagnostics (https://www.nanobiosym.com), where she developed the Gene-RADAR, winner of the first XPRIZE in healthcare. Recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s top science and tech innovators and by Scientific American as a leading biotech visionary, she has also earned three DARPA Breakthrough Awards and consistently appears on global top-35 and top-100 lists in nanotech and engineering.On the 11th and the 12th of October Dr. Goel is hosting a global summit at MIT on how a deeper understanding of quantum mechanics, AI and consciousness would influence multiple fields, leading to 'the 5th industrial revolution': https://nanobiosym-summit.webflow.io/

 

[Rocky Rockhead]

Physicist and physician Dr. Anita Goel has designed the equivalent of the double slit experiment in a living system, to test if the nanomachines that read and write DNA could operate quantum mechanically. In this interview with Hans Busstra, Goel talks about her experiment and explores the new theoretical framework it could lead to: a new physics to understand life, living systems and consciousness. Hans Busstra interviewed Dr. Goel after her presentation at the Science of Consciousness Conference in Barcelona (7 October 2025), this full presentation in which she describes her experiment in detail can we watched here: • 2025 TSC - Barcelona Plenary 10 - Quantum... Dr. Anita Goel is a physicist, physician, and pioneering nanotechnology entrepreneur whose work bridges quantum physics, biomedicine, nanotech, and AI. She is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Nanobiosym Research Institute and Nanobiosym Diagnostics (https://www.nanobiosym.com), where she developed the Gene-RADAR, winner of the first XPRIZE in healthcare. Recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s top science and tech innovators and by Scientific American as a leading biotech visionary, she has also earned three DARPA Breakthrough Awards and consistently appears on global top-35 and top-100 lists in nanotech and engineering.On the 11th and the 12th of October Dr. Goel is hosting a global summit at MIT on how a deeper understanding of quantum mechanics, AI and consciousness would influence multiple fields, leading to 'the 5th industrial revolution': https://nanobiosym-summit.webflow.i

I really liked what Dr. Goel said about testing whether life operates at a quantum level. It made me think, like maybe what we call empathy or shared understanding between people is the same kind of connection, just showing up on a human scale?

If living systems stay in tune through quantum coherence, then empathy might be what that feels like in daily life, a sort of emotional coherence. Maybe that’s also how we sense meaning or connection across time and space. It’s notable and important to me because I use it in active imagination and individuation by bringing empathy into a permanent symbolic space where I place all my archetypes where we meet in what I call the collaboration center. In other parts of my realm I built structures, domes for football and I put a doorway to this place open to any other archetypes as they pass through it’s empathetic filter. I did this to ensure I was treating myself kindly and not hating on myself.. then thought well hey if anything else out there wants to come in I allow it, as long as its empathetic and I promise the same.

It’s exciting to think that physics, biology, and consciousness might all be part of one continuous process, the universe learning how to stay connected through different forms.