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# Representation and Possibility **Problem shape:** the difficulty is not in solving but in *stating* — the symbols, categories, or enumerated options in play are the constraint. Symptoms: a problem that becomes trivial once renamed, a "complete" catalog nobody has bounded, a roadmap whose option space stops at the adjacent, a result that is intuitively obvious and formally unestablished. ## Relevant geniuses | Agent | Use when | |---|---| | [euler](../../agents/genius/euler.md) | the current notation or vocabulary obscures the solution — redesign the notation as infrastructure, delete what the abstraction does not need, enumerate exhaustively once the symbols carry their weight | | [borges](../../agents/genius/borges.md) | a system claims completeness or exhaustiveness — audit whether the space is actually searchable, keep the map distinct from the territory, detect the self-reference that makes the catalog contain itself | | [lem](../../agents/genius/lem.md) | the question is "what could this become?" and the standard forecast is too narrow — explore the possibility space systematically, push each principle to its logical extreme to see what breaks or emerges | | [archimedes](../../agents/genius/archimedes.md) | you need the result before you can prove it — find it by physical intuition, analogy, or simulation, then prove it rigorously by a *second, independent* method (the two-stage discipline; stage one alone is not a result) | ## Invocation 1. Pick the best-fit agen