The Here And Now

I had my mind blown the other day while reading for my Philosophy class. I was reading some of Hegel's work, and he basically asked what is now? What is here?

If I define those words according to dictionary.com, “here” is in this place, this spot, locally. That makes sense, except if you ask Hagel. Hagel argued that here is a tree. Therefore, the definition of here is the tree. This gets confusing when tomorrow, here is a house. Here is Three Hills Alberta (that is where I am, writing this post). Therefore, when someone in South Korea refers to “here”, he obviously means Three Hills. But he really means South Korea. Then someone in the UK refers to “here” and doesn’t mean Three Hills or South Korea, but the UK! We often use that word, “here” to make an objective truth. “Here is your keys that you lost they are here, you cannot argue that, it is an objective truth.” But I just proved that “here” can mean anywhere!

The same goes for “now”. dictionary.com defines “now” as at the present time or moment, but now is 7:05 on a tuesday night. No wait, now is 7:06. No wait, now is 7:07. Get my drift? Now is a constantly changing thing. It cannot be pinned down as one moment, because that moment instantly slips into the past. Now exists for sure, but it is a subjective being as its definition has now changed to 7:08.

For you, it might be 12 noon in the year 2035 and your domestic robot is reading this to you while you sunbathe on the planet mars,. It is still now and here. Both those words have changed, but they are still the same. Make sense?