DANGHAG

Sem. Neil John N. Revil

AB Philosophy III
Philosophy of Mind

Have you ever seen a movie entitled “final destination”, where there is a special person who can predict
what will happen a minute or an hour later. Have you heard a horror story where a person was being
deluded, he repeatedly pass the same place or area and the same time. It was called as “Lamat” by my
ancestor. Have you experience called “déjà vu”, when a person has done something and they experience
the same feelings or the feeling that one has lived through in the present situation. These are all
circumstances that sometimes I “folly” believe.
To prove, I want to share my experience that will suffice what I believe above. First experience last
September. Before the incident happen, I already thought that when I go to chapel I will be slipped and
bumped my butt on the ground. True enough, it happen a minute after. Second, last summer on the way to
our home from our parish it was already on my mind that “madagma gyud ko diris highway ba”. Then it
happen, my cellphone was broke and I was nearly bumped by a motorcycle.
It made me think of, is it a product of my mind? If it is, then is it intentional or just a phenomenon? My
experience amuse me, maybe I have a power to predict the future, just kidding. What amazes me is that
how the mind processed all these things. How could the mind create a mental activity, which is “naligyas
ko” and “Nadagma ko” that was completely never happen before it happens in the reality. If this was true,
that the mind has the power to intuit this mental activity, then it is beyond the human capacity to think
about what will happen for the next seconds, minutes, or hour. That’s when the mental activity works
completely different to what is normal.
What is lacking in the context is that, I never thought of the external (environmental) circumstances that
made my mental activity. The first experience, it was a rainy nearly evening and the grass is wet, as a
result I slipped. The second experience, the highway was repaired. There are a lot of hole, where my right
foot was shot inside that is why “nadagma ko”. My mind was able to think that mental activity stated
above because there are circumstances that affecting my mind. It awares my consciousness that this will
happen when I go to chapel, and this will be the circumstance if I passed the highway.
That is why, I realizes that it is not about the prediction but a given phenomenon what will happen. It is
not an intentional but a plotted phenomenon that tinkles the mind to create such mental activity, and that
therefore it happens “nga naligyas ug nadagma ko”.