2016年11月26日 · Dictionary of the heptapod logogram language from Arrival Question I have heard, from multiple sources, that the creators of the language in Arrival (Patrice Vermette, Martine Bertrand, the production team at large) have come up with a dictionary of 100 words/phrases in that language.

2021年4月19日 · The Heptapods went to Earth to teach humans their language, so humans would gain their non-linear perception of time, and be able to save their race in a couple millennia time It all works out in the end, but not before a couple of close calls with atomic annihilation, global chaos, and deaths.

2016年11月12日 · The Heptapod written language is very impermanent, so it doesn't convey any more lasting information than, say, tactile or aural information. A counter argument is that sound is delivered linearly with a start and an end, and therefore does not promote nonlinear thinking like viewing a logogram all at once.

2020年3月16日 · Their language doesn't change our ability to see things without time. Our language prevents us from seeing things that way. We use words like before and after, we use past tense and future tense, even the order we say our words tells us who survived when "Bob killed Steve". The heptapod language doesn't use sequence.

2020年9月17日 · In Louise's memory from the future ("flashforward", if you will), she meets General Shang at a certain event. General Shang, who had learned the heptapod language in the meantime, tells Louise what his wife's dying words were. Why? Because he knows Louise had accessed that memory from the past in order to convince him to drop his attack on the ...

2022年6月12日 · Also another random interesting speculation about them I have read based on the movie. Spoilers: The heptapods interacted with the humans so they could gain their help 3000 years in the future, they knew they needed the help since they could “see” into the future with the aid of their language.

The heptapod language would rule out the probabilistic one (and then, depending on the specificity of the predictive power, it might only represent an upper bound on it.) But then, some real-world experiments may already do this - see, for instance, the delayed choice quantum eraser. As does relativity, which describes a "tenseless" (no past ...

2017年2月17日 · Some time ago I found this thread posted by u/Chernobyl_Rat asking for a dictionary of Heptapod B. Christopher Wolfram did a livecoding session showing what he did for the movie using the wolfram language. Today I saw Wolfram Research made his code available on github and that includes a bunch of logograms and meanings. Here are the logograms.

2016年11月11日 · In the short story the main character observes that all language for them is performative, like the reciting of vows at a wedding. We all know the words, but we have to say them, because its important. To the Heptapods, the whole universe is a stage and each individual Heptapod knowingly plays their part in a larger story. This is main ...

2016年11月29日 · The Heptapod species and their language enables them to see time non-linearly Z-F-B-T-A-Z-C-G. In a way, they see all of time at once, a circle. That's how they can be in the "past", and know they need humanity's help 3,000 years later.