?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Institutional+paraconsciousness+and+its+pathologies&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=This+analysis+extends+a+recent+mathematical+treatment+of+the+Baars+consciousness+model+to+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+cognitive+modules%2C+instantiating+a+Global+Workspace.+Human+institutions%2C+by+contrast%2C+support+several%2C+sometimes+many%2C+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.+Such+highly+parallel+multitasking+-+institutional+paraconsciousness+-+while+clearly+limiting+inattentional+blindness+and+the+consequences+of+failures+within+individual+workspaces%2C+does+not+eliminate+them%2C+and+introduces+new+characteristic+dysfunctions+involving+the+distortion+of+information+sent+between+global+workspaces.+Consequently%2C+organizations+(or+machines+designed+along+these+principles)%2C+while+highly+efficient+at+certain+kinds+of+tasks%2C+remain+subject+to+canonical+and+idiosyncratic+failure+patterns+similar+to%2C+but+more+complicated+than%2C+those+afflicting+individuals.++Remediation+is+complicated+by+the+manner+in+which+pathogenic+externalities+can+write+images+of+themselves+on+both+institutional+function+and+therapeutic+intervention%2C+in+the+context+of+relentless+market+selection+pressures.+The+approach+is+broadly+consonant+with+recent+work+on+collective+efficacy%2C+collective+consciousness%2C+and+distributed+cognition.&rft.date=2006-09&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5117%2F1%2Ffirmcog9.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick++(2006)+Institutional+paraconsciousness+and+its+pathologies.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5117%2F<script src='//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js'></script>