Who, given the clear knowledge of exact outcomes which the Kwisatz Haderach believed his prescience gave him, would not have made the same choice9 Muad'Dib's error is easy enough to see- after the fact His addiction forced him to depend on prescience His leap into die Mam al'Mithal had brought the ability to see himself along the alternative routes ahead he had transcended the infinite loop of prescience affecting decision affecting pre science Now that he had bludgeoned uncertainty into submission, he beheved he could pick a route for himself that he knew would work out the way he intended What he could not have known was the consequence of bringing absolute certainty to human affairs Therefore, as Kwisatz Iladcrach he brought to the empire what the Bene Gessent had thought they wanted, complete control over human destiny What neither they nor he could have known, in spite of perfect prescience, was that complete control and its absolute certainty would mean the extinction of the human species Even ilie Kwibatz Haderach's prescience could not foresee this as he narrowed the path of humanity s future, bound himself and humanity to certitude he cut his prescience off from the larger uni verse of alternatives Muad'Dib thought he saw more and saw it bettei, he really ;"aw less in greater (and thus more convincing) detail With hindsight we can see vividly the hints of his error When he was trying to synchronize actuality and his vision, while he waited at Otheym's house for the stone burner's J-waves to blind him, he felt for a moment like a prisoner in a cage He sensed that there were other oracles seeing other futures, and he was frustrated because events were not moving precisely as he had fore seen them But he seems to have passed the aberrations off as the product of the Tarot conspirators, not as flaws m his own view Later on, after Muad'Dib had again and again demonstrated the "perfection* of his vision by knowing where to step and where to put his hand to sign documents, he was surprised to discover that