42 Quotes by David Chalmers

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

To do two CDs worth of a very well known composer is a little different, but what isn't different is that one of the things we established when we started recording was that we were going to record things that were not as well known and that I think we've been fairly consistent about, even with famous composers.

Those things in a way didn't need to evolve. They were part of the fundamental furniture of the world all along.

You have a different kind of experience -- a different quality of experience -- when you see red, when you see green, when you hear middle C, when you taste chocolate. Whenever you're conscious, whenever you have a subjective experience, it feels like something.

Sacred texts are universal and their truths are eternal. There is not a thing that we sing that doesn't have our personal conviction.

Any sacred text comes alive in a unique way when it is sung, and composers from Gregorian chant to the present day have known that.

Almost everyone agrees that there will be very strong correlations between what's in the brain and consciousness, ... The question is what kind of explanation that will give you. We want more than correlation, we want explanation -- how and why do brain process give rise to consciousness? That's the big mystery.

They are dedicating a large part of their lives to this choir. Any gift from God is meant to be shared.

I argue that neuroscience alone isn't enough to explain consciousness, but I think it will be a major part of an eventual theory.