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We live in the decay of our ancestors future

Cascade Decision Theory

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Have you ever thought about choice?

Where exactly does it come from?

Have you ever considered what limits your choice?

Visionary perception comes from freeing our minds of artificial limits. 

Cascade Decision Theory is a tool to open up your horizons to the possible and allow your imagination to soar. But first, we need to show you how our learnt ‘norms’ limit our perceptions and choices.

For us, humans, we perceive our space as an analogue continuum, stretching from the very small to the very large. We divide it into digestible chunks. An overlay of discrete concepts, a digitisation of space and time, often dictated by the limits of our language.

  • The question is, whose chunks are we digesting?
  • Who made historic choices that we continue to live with today?

Cascade Decision Theory allows us to question what is accepted and taken for granted. Once you know where the limits are, you can look over the artificial boundary and become a visionary. 

CDT invites a deeper look at how we arrived here, at this point in time and space, for you to read this post. Your life events have brought you here, and that should be celebrated.

What, then, is at the end of the cascade? Where is all of this leading us? Who knows?

In the short book we will explore what Cascade Decision Theory is through a series of simple worked examples, such as buying a box of cereal or opening the wardrobe.

The book concludes with a discussion on how this way of thinking can be implemented in everyday life.

Cascade Decision Theory does not claim that free will does not exist. Nor is it an argument that individuals are powerless. Quite the opposite. It aims to empower you. It does not suggest that all choices are controlled by some hidden hand. It is in no way a moral judgment. It does not use complex mathematics to predict behaviour, nor does it seek to explain consciousness.

Instead, it is a way of seeing how layers of past decisions, biology, language and physical reality shape the perceived range of choices available to us in any given moment. It leaves room for awareness within the constraints of reality, but also the limitless imagination. Being aware is the key ability we are trying to impart, providing you with the ability to question… everything and understand the assumed limits by which we live. The aim is to free your imagination.

In 1968, George Land and Beth Jarman, carried out the paperclip experiment. They asked a group of 5-year-olds how many uses they could come up with for a paperclip. They repeated the test when the children were ages 10 and 15. And then tested a group of adults. The proportion of people who scored at the genius level:

  • 98% 5-year-olds
  • 30% 10-year-olds,
  • 12% 15-year-olds
  • 2% Adults

The possible reason, the children had a ‘free’, unrestricted imagination, which became constrained with age, conformity and language.

Try to free your imagination as much as possible and release your childhood imagination, that’s where true choice lies and the ability to become a visionary. 

We were all children once, we have it in us. Trust me, you can do it!

Enter your limitless void and let your infinite imagination soar!

Cascade Decision Theory, coming out in April 2026, watch this space. 

 

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