ABSTRACT
The history of cognitive science and that of artificial intelligence are intertwined. This is mainly due to the assumption that the brain works like an information processing machine, e.g., a computer. When perspective other than computationalism—e.g., embodied, distributed and extended—emerged in cognitive science, many have thrown away the baby (computationalism) together with the bathwater (computation). Instead, there is still a role for computer-based research in the study of cognition. In particular, the attention to the social and the meso domain (cf. this book) makes it necessary to treat organizational cognition as a complex system. This allows for agent-based computational simulation modeling to carve a prominent role out, bringing computation back to center stage.
