In one of his short stories, author Ted Chiang describes Lisa—an expert linguist—attempting to decipher the written language of an alien species (Chiang, 2002). Lisa is finally able to decode the intricate semagrams, and as she grows fluent in the language, she finds herself thinking in it too. It is then that she fully realises that the experiences of these aliens differ dramatically from human thought. Rather than seeing the world causally and sequentially, as humans do, the aliens experience the world “all at once”. Rather than moving through time, they experience the world integrated over time, with the past, present, and future occurring simultaneously.