In so doing, they lose their ability to make choices other than the ones they “remember” making in the future. The humans who learn Heptapod B become able, like the heptapods, to remember their futures as well as their past. In the science-fictional world of “Story of Your Life,” the ability to experience time as a simultaneity is reflected in Heptapod B. In Heptapod B, sentences and even paragraphs can be read instantaneously and in any direction, suggesting that concepts like “end” and “beginning” or “cause” and “effect” are interchangeable. The heptapods’ deterministic viewpoint is embedded in their written language, Heptapod B. ![]() Because the heptapods already know what they are going to do, they do not have the ability to make choices. ![]() “Story of Your Life” critiques the notion of free will by depicting aliens, called heptapods, who experience their entire life simultaneously rather than sequentially from birth to death.
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