I am thinking how the younger generation has language at their disposal, words that are accepted in society, truth. They use words. Perhaps abuse them. And my initial reaction is they don't understand the depth of those words. What information went into creating the lower level from which those words emerged.
But then I thought that perhaps they live the words. While I need to recreate the meaning of a word through hard work, creating the information from the data to propel the emergence of the word, they the younger generation have different data they are working with. Their data is primarily experiential, the live and experience things that I did not, hence the words emerge natively without the effort and work that I need to put in.
So they do understand the words at a depth beyond their usage. Yet they don't know how to articulate their understanding since it is based on a non-linguistic knowledge.
Is this what Barbara Tversky means by behavioural thinking?
