higher reasoning
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- abstractCondensed version of text
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
- intellectMental reasoning capacity
deduction · analysis · critical thinking · problem-solving · metacognition · inference · rationality · wisdom · insight · comprehension · synthesis · judgment · discernment · contemplation · philosophy · intelligence · understanding · conceptual
cognitive sophistication
higher reasoninginstinct
Innate behavioral tendency
automatic response · gut reaction · knee-jerk reaction · mindlessness · thoughtlessness
basis of judgment
higher reasoningirrationality
Absence of logic
unreason · raw emotion · gut feeling · impulse · illogic
evolutionary development
higher reasoningreptilian brain
Primal neural structure
lizard brain · fight-or-flight response · survival instinct · animal instinct · primal urge