Drawing on contemporary work that traces cognition to embodiment, we present a model of cognition in organisations. In so doing, we add a middle ground to previous models: far from opposing macro to micro, we focus on how the meso influences complex adaptive dynamics. Taking peer-review as an exemplar, we show that organisational needs can be fulfilled by orchestrated coordination. Constrained by brains and bodies (the micro domain) that attune to structural constraints (the macro domain), human beings use material culture – artefacts, language, practices, etc. – to animate what we call social organising in the meso domain. The resulting coordination can anticipate organisational goals such that, as demonstrated in the case of peer-review, social organising regulates epistemic practice. Flexible, embodied activity enables reviewers and to meet the aims of organised science by pooling the expertise of those involved. They use multi-scalar dynamics that are mediated by material, temporal and spatial resources that, when concerted, constrain and enable organisational cognition.

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组织中的认知：它是什么以及它如何运作

借鉴将认知追溯到具体化的当代工作，我们提出了组织中的认知模型。在这样做的过程中，我们为之前的模型添加了一个中间立场：远离宏观与微观的对立，我们专注于中观如何影响复杂的自适应动态。以同行评审为例，我们表明可以通过精心策划的协调来满足组织需求。受与结构约束（宏观领域）相协调的大脑和身体（微观领域）的约束，人类使用物质文化——人工制品、语言、实践等——在中观领域为我们所谓的社会组织提供动画。由此产生的协调可以预测组织目标，如同行评审所证明的那样，社会组织调节认知实践。灵活的，具身活动使审稿人能够通过汇集相关人员的专业知识来实现​​有组织的科学目标。它们使用以物质、时间和空间资源为中介的多标量动态，当这些资源协调一致时，可以约束和实现组织认知。