14. Paradigmatic Stage (mid-twenties and above, if at all) Can deal with several very abstract metasystems to create new ways of thinking of the world, new paradigms, new sciences or branches within sciences. Has a fractal way of thinking, so that the universal principles found are applicable to many different levels of analysis and phenomena. Prevalence unknown, but if the pattern holds and every stage seems to increase with about a standard deviation[86], it should be a little more than one adult in a thousand in a normal population, mostly at ages 25+. This makes it rare, but still some
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