David Chalmers
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"David John Chalmers" is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the area of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. He is also Professor of Philosophy at New York University. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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

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.

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.

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