Why consider Human Perception?
• Humans have evolved in a competitive world, and are likely to have developed efficient solutions to problems of survival. • Many survival problems are based on mathemathematical facts that apply equally to the human and to the army in the field. • Perceptions are the only knowledge a human (including a commander) has of the state of the world. All actions (including commands) are, in the end, devoted to attaining or maintaining perceptions at desired states. The problem facing a military commander is very like the problem faced by any biological organism—the effective and efficient use of resources in an environment that contains competitors and enemies, as well as opportunities. Over the long period of evolution, biological organisms have developed very effective techniques for dealing with the challenges of life, and it may be very helpful to the military to understand something of these techniques and their possible application to C2 systems. The central fact of life is that an or
