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Patterns in How Joint
Cognitive Systems Work
CSE is committed to abstracting general patterns a cross specific
settings and var ious episodes of change. The following chapters focus
on basic concepts that hav e emerg ed from over two decades of CSE
research. In each case, studies challenged conven tional beliefs and
provided a new understanding of how joint cognitive systems adapt to
cope with complexity.
Chapter 7
Archetypical Stories of Joint
Cognitive Systems at Work
One of the great values of science is that, during the process of discovery,
conventio n al beliefs are questioned by putting them in empirica l jeopardy. When
scientists formulate new ideas and look at the wor ld anew through these conceptual
looking gla sses, the results often startl ...