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[Scoops Novel]

What should you do? What are your options when the brain and body aren't cutting it?

[McTraveller]

Rephrase the question / reframe the problem.

There is no situation unsolvable by either physical means or a change in perspective.

[voliol]

a change in perspective.

Imagine there's no problems, the brain can always cut it.
There's even a saying in Portuguese "O que não têm remédio, remediado está"
What has no remedy, is remedied. If you can't solve it, you can't.

It was inevitable.

But yes, asking for help is your go-to in these situations. The set of problems that either you can solve, someone else can solve, or nobody can solve is exhaustive.

[anewaname]

If you can't overcome with mind or body...

You can choose from the basic actions that organisms have been taking for as long as they have existed...
- seek a mutually beneficial symbiosis, as lichens and corals do
- exist as a herd, so you can scatter and survive with a partial loss
- tithe, as the aphids do
- submit to some degree of slavery, as ants, dogs, and cows do
- submit to death

If your antagonist is not an organism, keep thinking.

[McTraveller]

But ... those things are a combination of mind and body!

HEAD ASPLODE

[EuchreJack]

What should you do? What are your options when the brain and body aren't cutting it?

HIDE! AVOID! MISDIRECT!
DIVE DIVE DIVE!

Er, there is no problem here. This is Fine.

[Egan_BW]

Why frame the question as getting out of it? After all, sometimes the only way out is through.

[EuchreJack]

Well, the question did say "and you can't muscle your way out of it"
So "through" via physical force is apparently impossible.
But the question does not address willpower or endurance.
Sometimes, you win by convincing the other guy that you'll inflict a cost more than they're willing to pay.

[Egan_BW]

No, that rules out 'out' through physical force, it says nothing about through. :p

[King Zultan]

But if I put on my sensory deprivation helmet, that means I can't perceive the problem there for it doesn't exist, and thus the problem is solved!

[Loud Whispers]

What should you do? What are your options when the brain and body aren't cutting it?

Get a friend! Two brains and two bodies increase the power in a non-linear way