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The Crazy Theory Of Decisions

Most people do not realize the severity of the everyday decisions they make. The decisions you make affect not only yourself, but ultimately the rest of the planet; even decisions as meagre as the “peanut butter or mustard” one. 

Every silly decision you make may matter later to you or someone else. This hypothesis may be very difficult to comprehend, as humans and animals alike make countless number of decisions before death. The effect of a single decision is compounded astronomically over time, such that, not eating your breakfast may result to your death in traffic a few minutes later, or fifty years later from heart disease.

 There is no such thing as fate or destiny; we just have indirect decisions that were not made by you or not entirely made by you (or “decisions” made by “laws of physics and nature” or random acts of probability such the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago). Your entire life is as it is as a result of decisions made by you and other people, very many of whom you will never meet all of your life.


The “eureka/light bulb” moment for this hypothesis came to me after witnessing a violent clash between two boys that was prevented from escalating into bloodshed by a man. The two were from different gangs, and one was prevented from stabbing the other by this said man (just in the nick of time). Now, imagine that this man had not come as he had done at that time, one of the boys may have probably been stabbed to death. His death in turn, would affect the rest of reality as it would have been if he had lived longer. 

He may have had a son or grandson who would have become the best president of Nigeria ever, or the greatest crime lord on the continent ever. The boy who would have killed him may have done a very bad or good deed (but no one may ever be certain), at least if his descendants were taken into consideration. Now, here is still another way the entire scenario could be viewed; imagine if  the said man who had intervened had decided to sleep in late the previous night, and thus woke up late the following morning. 

By the time he may have been at the site of the deed, it may have already have taken place. Or he may have spent more time in the bathroom than he did on that day. Or his wife may have prepared his meal late (one of the many decisions that was not made directly by him). Or he may have woken up too early and would have already passed the site of the deed before it happened. 

Still, there are many more ways to view this scenario; imagine if one of the boys had woken up early, because he slept early the previous night, and did not meet the other one. Or if he was delayed by a friend he met on the way (one of the decisions not made entirely by him). Or had he not join a gang in the first place. The end result would have been traumatically different even if a small negligible decision made by anyone of them or someone else was altered.
 
Your life is exactly as it is today because of every decision made by you or someone else (that still had an impact on your life). In fact, every decision made by everyone before your birth, and during your lifetime, affects you in some way. Even decisions made by animals. This is true if you do not take happenings that originated as a result of “the laws of physics and nature” or random acts of probability. 


Imagine if Hitler did not join the German army, or Einstein decided not to publish his articles on relativity; the earth as we know it now would have been very different. Every decision you make, may be a life or death situation for someone else or yourself ultimately (as the effect of decisions grow geometrically). 

See things this way; your mother may have refused your father’s advances, and you would have never been born. You may decide not to go to a party, and miss out on the chance of meeting the love of your life. Imagine if you had gone to a different college or high school, how much more different would your life have been now! As you may have rightly noticed, some decisions seem to have greater immediate consequence than others. Say, choosing your college, or choosing your dinner.
 
All these may seem as a different way of explaining “fate”, if it is, then there may be a way to cheat it (at least in the mind of the mad genius or maybe in a few centuries time). The theory of decisions could be tailored to fit into useful applications for humankind. This is what I propose; imagine if the life of different specimens of humans, could be under scrutiny and observation (indirectly though, so as to avoid influencing the decisions of the subjects; maybe a chip is implanted in the brain of the subjects) from the day of its birth to the day it died. 

Every decision is logged and duly studied. Random acts of probability and “laws of physics and nature” would be also taken into effect. After the death of the subject, an algorithm could be developed and enhanced by say, a super computer from the countless number of decisions made by the subject. From this, shields against the effects of random acts of probability and it sorts could developed (or to cushion or diminish the effects of such random acts). 

Emphasis may be placed on the decisions with greater immediate effect on one’s own existence, and means to avoid the effect of “life-threatening” decisions could be developed from the enhancements of such algorithms. 

Say, one of the subjects became a great business entrepreneur; the decisions he made during his lifetime could be implemented on another subject (with the shields developed to limit the effect of random acts) to get a similar result. Individuals with such algorithm could tread in the ways of predecessors to achieve similar outcomes. You could literally be anything you want (at least in the mind of the mad genius).  

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