Sentence examples for higher order thought from inspiring English sources

Its prospects for explaining higher level and higher order thought are less certain, but few programs aim this high.

When I introspect, the experience alone provides me with awareness of itself — no higher order thought is necessary.

Nevertheless, there are ways in which LOTH can be helpful for an account of state consciousness that seeks to explain a thought's being conscious in terms of a higher order thought which is about the first order thought.

But Dretske's account of belief appears to make it distinct from conscious awareness of the belief or intentional state (if that is taken to require a higher order thought), and so would allow attribution of intentionality to systems that can learn.

Those who view higher order thought as necessary for consciousness can take our condition C as a candidate for upgrading meta-representation into a sufficient condition for consciousness.

Most of us consider moral judgment a higher order thought process, but this research shows that it can be tweaked by a weak magnetic field in a matter of minutes.

Higher-order thought processing (critical thinking) produces deep, long-term learning.

(There need not actually be any higher-order thought occurring, in order for a given perceptual state to count as phenomenally conscious, on this view).

But this suggestion presupposes that the organism must already have some capacity for higher-order thought, since it is such thoughts that inner sense is supposed to subserve.

It should be noted that Rosenthal himself interprets the non-inferential requirement as ruling out only conscious inferences in the generation of a consciousness-making higher-order thought.

So why should our higher-order awareness of a mental state (either via a perception-like state, produced by inner sense, or via a higher-order thought about it) render that mental state conscious?