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Furthermore, Abbott doesn't die instantly in the explosion. Costello writes the next day that "Abbott is death process" likely implying a slow and painful demise, if they experience anything resembling pain. Abbott would have experienced this horrific future during every moment of their life.
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** Furthermore, Abbott doesn't die instantly in the explosion. Costello writes the next day that "Abbott is death process" likely implying a slow and painful demise, if they experience anything resembling pain. Abbott would have experienced this horrific future during every moment of their life.
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* If the case is that Heptapods experience their own lifetimes nonlinearly, but otherwise don't have a way to predict the future, that must mean that some of them that are alive right now will experience the crisis for which they'll eventually need humanity's help. That means they live for at least several millennia, and yet Abbott still didn't hesitate to give their life to save 2 vastly inferior humans who themselves only have a moment, relatively speaking, left in their own lives. Rewatching the movie, it's hard not to feel like you can see the fear and desperation in Abbott's attempts against fate to instruct the humans to escape the bomb as Abbott's final memory closes in towards the present.
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* If the case is that Heptapods experience their own lifetimes nonlinearly, but otherwise don't have a way to predict the future, that must mean that some of them that are alive right now will experience the crisis for which they'll eventually need humanity's help. That means they live for at least several millennia, and yet Abbott still didn't hesitate to give their life to save 2 vastly inferior humans who themselves only have a moment, relatively speaking, left in their own lives. Rewatching the movie, it's hard not to feel like you can see the fear and desperation in Abbott's attempts against fate to instruct the humans to escape the bomb as Abbott's final memory closes in towards the present.present.
Furthermore, Abbott doesn't die instantly in the explosion. Costello writes the next day that "Abbott is death process" likely implying a slow and painful demise, if they experience anything resembling pain. Abbott would have experienced this horrific future during every moment of their life.
Furthermore, Abbott doesn't die instantly in the explosion. Costello writes the next day that "Abbott is death process" likely implying a slow and painful demise, if they experience anything resembling pain. Abbott would have experienced this horrific future during every moment of their life.
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** It could simply be that HumansAreBastards or even HumansAreCthulhu. We're good at killing things, maybe in no small part because we have no trouble distinguishing beginnings from endings. Heptapods have trouble conceptualizing "weapons" to the point that they either weren't able to communicate a distinction between weapon and language - or they believed that the bomb WAS a form of human language. (Why else would we bring it to them?)
** Another possibility is that the "quantum blindness" that humans have while unaware of the future allows us to change it in ways that are physically or mentally impossible for the Heptapods, but some of us still had to learn to "open time" to save our species from mutually assured destruction. This could be why Abbott pounded on the barrier trying to alert Louise and Ian to the bomb despite knowing it would be too late: they may have been aware of the eventual ability of humans to change the future, and hoped against fate that it would manifest this soon.
** Another possibility is that the "quantum blindness" that humans have while unaware of the future allows us to change it in ways that are physically or mentally impossible for the Heptapods, but some of us still had to learn to "open time" to save our species from mutually assured destruction. This could be why Abbott pounded on the barrier trying to alert Louise and Ian to the bomb despite knowing it would be too late: they may have been aware of the eventual ability of humans to change the future, and hoped against fate that it would manifest this soon.
