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Organization Studies and Computing Science are heterogeneous fields of theory and practice with longstanding interconnections, significant mutualities and important differences. This paper addresses their mutual concerns of organization, information and computation by exploring common but problematic interests in the formation, development and control of shared representations. Over the course of the paper we critically examine these interests, arguing for the reorientation of these interlinked fields towards the development of more modest, situated and dynamic understandings of information. We conclude that an appreciation of the heterogeneity of these fields and the hybridity of their interconnections is essential for the development of forms of knowledge appropriate to the complexity of contemporary organized life.

AbstractDo the dynamics of a physical system determine what function the system computes? Except in special cases, the answer is no: it is oftenindeterminatewhat function a given physical system computes. Accordingly, care should be taken when the question 'What does a particular neuronal system do?' is answered by hypothesising that the system computes aparticularfunction. The phenomenon of the indeterminacy of computation has important implications for the development of computational explanations of biological systems. Additionally, the phenomenon lends some support to the idea that a single neuronal structure may perform multiple cognitive functions, each subserved by a different computation. We provide an overarching conceptual framework in order to further the philosophical debate on the nature of computational indeterminacy and computational explanation.