"higher thought" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to complex, abstract or philosophical thinking. Example: "The poet's reflective poetry revealed a deep contemplation of higher thought, delving into the complexities of human existence."
By 1910, the only real factor preventing Watson from conceiving of the study of behavior as embracing the whole of psychology seems to have been "the problem of the higher thought processes" (Burnham, 1968): Thought was supposed to be carried on primarily in imagery, and imagery was not behavior (see Watson, 1913b).
The Afghan action received relatively little higher thought, so to speak.
Researchers commonly distinguish between imitation caused by simple conditioned reflex, that caused by common trial-and-error learning, and that involving the higher thought processes.
"State Education: Its Rise and Present Standing" "Emerson's Influence on the Higher Thought of America" "Speech Delivered by Jacob Gould Schurman at the Kishineff Indignation Meeting, Carnegie Hall" Speech at the Alumni Banquet.
All of them devoted themselves to their principles, which varied, and to the town, but some of them hated each other, so it's not as though they were all earnestly wedded to higher thought at all costs.
When he was living in America, he was given space in Esquire for his views and photo spreads in Life for his beautiful face, plausibly represented as an icon of higher thought: he was up there with Einstein.
"I get all the higher thoughts I need from a bottle of whisky in the shed at the bottom of my garden.
Could the girls' connection go beyond sensory impressions to higher thoughts, thoughts as simple as "I want water" or as complex as "I'm tired of 'Good Night Moon' "?
For a history of a theory obsessed with showing how our higher thoughts reflect quirks of personal history and temperament, the book could have used a little more mud-stirring from the biographical streambed.
Both views need to contend with the worry that subsystems of higher thoughts and their targets might be unconscious, as seems to be suggested by Freud's theory of repression.
Dr. Martina Grüter said many considered her husband and his father, who is also face blind, to be simply "absent-minded professors" who occasionally may not recognize someone because they are preoccupied with higher thoughts.
