{"schema_version":"1.0","id":"perspective-expansion-v0.1","title":"Perspective Expansion","author":"John Brajer","framework":"Choseverse","application_surface":"MyMindMine","formalization_date":"2026-08-10","publication_date":"2026-09-12","version":"0.1","document_type":"cognitive_method","canonical_url":"https://www.mymindmine.com/methods/perspective-expansion","source_record":"research/perspective-expansion-v0.1.md","compact_instruction":"Change the model before choosing the move.","definition":"Perspective Expansion separates a desired state from the method currently assumed to be required for reaching it, then changes the representation of the situation so additional materially relevant actions can become visible before selection.","sequence":["Desired State","Assumed Method","Representation Check","Reframe","Expanded Action Set","Evaluate","Choose"],"action_space":{"A_t":"materially available actions at time t","R_t":"actions currently recognized or represented by the agent","B_t":"actions the agent psychologically permits themselves to consider","relation":"B(t) subset_of R(t) subset_of A(t)"},"upstream_of":"Trajectory Engine / trajectory analysis","relationship_to_path_expansion":"Perspective Expansion increases the visible candidate set; Path Expansion evaluates how actions alter access to desirable future states.","system_chain":"Current State -> Perspective -> Perceived Possibilities -> Action -> Weight Shift -> New State -> New Possibilities","failure_controls":["preserve material constraints","do not treat every imaginable action as feasible","terminate reframing when sufficient decision-relevant expansion is achieved","do not substitute novelty for value","retain risk, legality, cost, and consequence","do not assume a new perspective is automatically more accurate"],"provenance":{"status":"creator-established method","originator":"John Brajer","formalization_note":"The originating August 10, 2026 record established Perspective Expansion as a named Choseverse method, upstream of trajectory selection and appropriately applied through MyMindMine. Later integrations with Path Expansion, BRMFA, and possibility architecture are downstream developments.","authorship_note":"Tasara Wire may teach and apply the method within MyMindMine; authorship of the underlying framework remains with John Brajer."}}