The Convergent Science Podcasts on Mind, Brain and Technology

The Convergent Science Network (CSN) Podcast began in 2010 at the

Barcelona Cognition, Brain, and Technology (BCBT) Summer School, where

hosts Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott sat down with leading scientists right

after their lectures. BCBT turned into a series of annual schools on neuroscience,

robotics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and biology and is led by Anna

Mura. Recordings were done at the Fundació Phonos in Barcelona.

What started as informal post-lecture conversations has grown into an archive of

120+ episodes, featuring Nobel laureates, pioneering neuroscientists, roboticists,

and interdisciplinary thinkers from around the world. In 2021, the podcast

expanded with a new Collaboration series — produced in partnership with the

Ernst Strüngmann Forum — exploring how collaboration arises, and why it fails,

across business, government, science, art, health, and sustainability. This series