?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Institutional+Cognition&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Deborah&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=We+generalize+a+recent+mathematical+analysis+of+Bernard+Baars'+model+of+human+consciousness+to+explore+analogous%2C+but+far+more+complicated%2C+phenomena+of+institutional+cognition.+Individual+consciousness+is+limited+to+a+single%2C+tunable%2C+giant+component+of+interacting+cogntivie+modules%2C+instantiating+a+Global+Workspace.+Human+institutions%2C+by+contrast%2C+seem+able+to+multitask%2C+supporting+several+such+giant+components+simultaneously%2C+although+their+behavior+remains+constrained+to+a+topology+generated+by+cultural+context+and+by+the+path-dependence+inherent+to+organizational+history.+Surprisingly%2C+such+multitasking%2C+while+clearly+limiting+the+phenomenon+of+inattentional+blindness%2C+does+not+eliminate+it.+This+suggests+that+organizations+(or+machines)+explicitly+designed+along+these+principles%2C+while+highly+efficient+at+certain+sets+of+tasks%2C+would+still+be+subject+to+analogs+of+the+subtle+failure+patterns+explored+in+Wallace+(2005b%2C+2006).++We+compare+and+contrast+our+results+with+recent+work+on+collective+efficacy+and+collective+consciousness.&rft.date=2006-07&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4960%2F1%2FFirmcog4.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick+and+Wallace%2C+Deborah++(2006)+Institutional+Cognition.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4960%2F