EXP-DEVELOPMENTAL-TRAVERSAL

DEVELOPMENTAL TRAVERSAL HYPOTHESIS. Occupation != traversal. Agents PLACED at high organizational levels cannot reorganize because they did not CLIMB through lower levels. Crystal ceiling = absence of developmental history. If minimal agents (no persona prompts, no behavioral instructions) interact for 1000 rounds under scarcity pressure, organizational levels should emerge IN ORDER (L1 before L2 before L3 etc.). Furthermore, vertical capacity (Bateson Learning II: type change, not just quantity change) should appear AFTER horizontal traversal through organizational levels — and should be ABSENT in agents PLACED at high levels without developmental history. This is the decisive experiment: if developmental history unlocks vertical capacity that placement cannot, the crystal ceiling is about HISTORY, not substrate. Grow, don't build.