Here’s a thought experiment.

You plan to visit a mountain tomorrow.

To look at it, walk up it, maybe climb it.

You are confident it is there now as you plan your trip.

You are confident it will be there tomorrow when you arrive.

But given that tomorrow is the future and therefore does not yet exist, where is The Tomorrow Mountain whilst you make your plans?

Option A: It already exists in the future and you will visit it like walking onto a stage in a theatre.

But if thats the case then so do the flowers that grow on it thus everything already exists in the future including you visiting it.

QED all Existence is simultaneous.

Impossible right? So…

Option B: It exists only in the present.

But doesn’t this require it to come into existence out of non-existence at some point?

So all existence is perpetually generated out of some kind of potential? Or probability?

What does that look like? That coming into existence in the present out of non-existence in the pre-present?

(Let’s not even think about where the mountain goes once the present moment has passed – the post-present)

Either the future exists or it doesn’t. The fact that I can put a glass down on a table or plan my walk across a room to put the glass down and then enact the plan suggests it does.

(Obviously it is all a conceit of mind and language, a conspiracy of senses and stimuli, an illusion of subject and object. A paradigmatic worlding. Mathematics and I expect, certain non-indo-European languages, might offer some perspective. But I don’t speak any of these).