Higher-Dimensional Thinking

CORE DEFINITION

A reasoning move popularised through Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem and its idea of the dimensional strike, and used in strategy writing alongside first-principles thinking and blue-ocean strategy. The proposition is that some problems are unsolvable inside their own frame because the available variables are exhausted, so the way out is to add a new dimension, such as service, brand or technology, in which the old conflict becomes irrelevant. The qualification is that ascension requires a real new variable and its own cost, not a slogan.