Consciousness and the machine: Paul Verschure at TEDxBarcelona

Dr. Paul F.M.J. Verschure (1962) is a research professor with the Catalan Institute of Advanced Studies (ICREA) and director of the Center of Autonomous Systems and Neurorobotics and the laboratory of Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain. He received both his Ma. and PhD in psychology and pursued his research at different leading institutes: the Neurosciences Institute and The Salk Institute, both in San Diego, the University of Amsterdam, University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-ETH, where he was a founding member of the Institute of Neuroinformatics. Paul´s scientific aim is to find a unified theory of mind, brain and body through the use of synthetic methods and to apply this theory to the development of novel technologies and quality of life enhancing applications. This theory is called Distributed Adaptive Control that has been generalized to a range of invertebrate and vertebrate neuronal systems and tested on a range of robotic systems. The DAC theory has given rise to a novel neuroprosthetic device and has laid the foundation for a unique and highly effective virtual reality based approach towards neurorehabilitation called the Rehabilitation Gaming System.

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