Douglas W. Shrader's Hard Problem Of Consciousness

Douglas W. Shrader defines the seven characteristics of mystical experiences as ineffability, noetic quality, transiency, passivity, unity of opposites, timelessness, and a feeling that one has somehow encountered “the true self.” The best way I can explain the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” is that it’s the problem of explaining why any physical state is conscious rather than nonconscious. I do believe that consciousness is created by the brain due to a childhood experience. When I was in high school I was on the wrong end of a hate crime and was beat by a group of individuals (for walking past the wrong place at the wrong time). When I got home my mother took me to the hospital to get checked out, because I felt like something just wasn’t