Cook-Greuter, S.R. (2004). “Making the Case for a Developmental Perspective.” Industrial and Commercial Training, 36(7), 275-281. DOI: 10.1108/00197850410563902.
Documents the empirical distribution of adult developmental stages in professional populations through sentence completion testing. Finds that later developmental stages (corresponding to what the BioConomy thesis calls Mycelial Consciousness) represent a small but measurable portion of the population. These later stages are characterized by increased comfort with ambiguity, paradox, and systems-level thinking.
Cook-Greuter’s empirical data provides the quantitative ground for the BioConomy corpus’s claim that the consciousness required for Mycelial coordination is developmentally real but not yet widespread. This informs the urgency argument: the binding constraint on civilizational transition is developmental, and the Framer’s function is to create conditions under which this development can occur.