In hindsight (LOL! See what happened there!?), Mr Denis did an awesome job transforming a short story into a quiet, introspective, cerebral epic. I absolutely adored Villeneuve's vision, and it may be in my Top-10 fave movies ever. Why this work? I'm here squarely because of my curiosity after having been amazed a few times by the film - as quite some people here seem to be (e.g. En consecuencia, creo que esta novela corta merece las cuatro estrellas. El proceso de aprendizaje de la lengua escrita está detallado de forma excelente. La forma en que esa inteligencia alienígena se diferencia de la nuestra está descrita maravillosamente. Sin embargo, la descripción del encuentro con una inteligencia extraterrestre es muy buena. Uno de los personajes dice que "las leyes fundamentales de la física son simétricas respecto al tiempo", lo que no es verdad: se ha olvidado del segundo principio de la termodinámica, y olvidarse de esta ley hace que su teoría "caiga en la más profunda humillación", con palabras de Eddington. Como Einstein, Chiang parece creer que los tiempos pasado y futuro son indistinguibles. So, all in all, I believe this novella deserves four stars.ĮSPAÑOL: He decidido darle cuatro estrellas a esta novela corta de 1998, a pesar de que no estoy de acuerdo con su forma de entender el tiempo. The process of learning their written language is marvellously described. The way in which that alien intelligence differs from ours is wonderfully described. And forgetting about this law makes your theory "to collapse in deepest humiliation," to use Eddington's words.īut the description of the encounter with an alien intelligence is very good. One of the characters says that "the fundamental laws of physics time-symmetric" but this is false: it has forgotten about the second law of Thermodynamics. Like Einstein, Chiang seems to believe that past and future times are indistinguishable. And forgetting about this law makes your theory "to collapse in deepest humiliation," to use Eddington's words ENGLISH: I decided to give four stars to this novella, written in 1998, in spite of the fact that I do not agree with its vision of time.
Both movie & the story explain the theory of determinism perfectly.ĮNGLISH: I decided to give four stars to this novella, written in 1998, in spite of the fact that I do not agree with its vision of time. It's directed a movie based on the story "Arrival". "The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar" We are like boats dashing together our eyes are darkened, yet we are in clear water.
The palm has not the means of covering the whole of the best. The sensual eye is just like the palm of the hand. ‘Certainly this elephant was like a throne,’ he said. ‘I found the elephant’s shape is like a pillar,’ he said. To him the beat was evidently like a fan. The hand of another lighted on the elephant’s ear. ‘This creature is like a water-spout,’ he said. Finding that ocular inspection was impossible, each visitor felt it with his palm in the darkness. Crowds of people were going into that dark place to see the beat. SOME Hindus had brought an elephant for exhibition and placed it in a dark house. What happens if we remove time from the circle of mind? What is the relationship between the concept of linear time & our knowledge about the language? The concept of world, I want to say the Truth is unique but its interpretation can be as much as all humans who have ever lived. We can consider time as the basis of human knowledge. Everything we understand is in the domain of our language abilities & maybe it is the reason that we hardly find a super genius deaf man. The more sophisticated the language, the more complicated the people using it. The sentence can also be interpreted as a philosophical statement, as we all know that death is the end of humanity, why do we continue to live? W “Well if you already know how the story goes, why do you need me to read it to you? " “Well if you already know how the story goes, why do you need me to read it to you? " The sentence can also be interpreted as a philosophical statement, as we all know that death is the end of humanity, why do we continue to live? The more sophisticated the language, the more complicated the people using it.