The phrase "actual thinking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to genuine or real cognitive processes, often in contrast to superficial or automatic thoughts.
Example: "In order to solve complex problems, we need to engage in actual thinking rather than relying on quick fixes."
Alternatives: "genuine thought" or "real contemplation".
That's so symbolic of the way the media interact with people in this area – they think of us more as a spectacle than as actual thinking human beings.
Or perhaps even Wilsonian — another insult, though one that ignores the great complexity of Wilson's actual thinking.
Share some of your actual thinking about policy, including the painful and finely balanced trade-offs you face".
At one end of the stereotype are the traditional gamers arguing over increasingly obscure interpretations of the rules and turning to manuals thicker than a phone book to arbitrate; at the other end are the video gamers, dazzled by bright lights, surrounded by mountains of technology, and winning by virtue of reaction times rather than any actual thinking.
Therefore, the study of scientists' actual thinking can only be the subject of psychology, sociology, and other empirical sciences.
Logic in this approach is identified with the actual thinking processes of individuals or communities and its authority is seen to be local, or relative to the practices of particular epistemic groupings.
Once it grasps a form and is actually thinking, it becomes "actual intellect".
There are a lot of things said about each of the characters that I'd hate the idea of any actual person thinking I had the intention of saying that about them".
"Richard and I were living in Southfields [in south-west London], in this terrible, terrible high-rise building with blood smeared up the walls of the stairwell, and I remember when we could afford to buy cheese – actual cheese, and orange juice, not squash but actual juice – and thinking: 'This is amazing!
In a post at Language Log, the linguist Mark Liberman wondered if that 2012 result reflected a change in words people used to describe individualistic and communal thinking, rather than an actual change in thinking.
Through later work with electromyographic equipment, it became apparent that the muscular phenomena are not the actual vehicles of thinking; they merely facilitate the appropriate activities in the brain when an intellectual task is particularly exacting.
