Lucas Beyer says young children's raw reasoning is easy to observe

Lucas Beyer says 5- and 6-year-olds narrate their unfiltered reasoning aloud because they speak before filtering their thoughts.

In an X post dated October 13, 2026, he describes that reasoning as full of random exploration, backtracking and forgetting, with no more than 2-4 induction steps. He offers this as an observable contrast to how adults reason, and the post does not cite a study or other evidence for these observations.