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UK Defence Policy – ‘seeing’ the whole terrain
The human brain has evolved over eons into a hemispheric structure, allowing a lateralisation of attention to our surroundings. The right-hemisphere (RH) ‘presences’ the world like a radar; a broad, sustained, flowing attention, on the look-out for dangers and opportunities revealed by patterns and changes in the terrain. The left-hemisphere (LH) ‘re-presents’ this world like a military map; a narrow, static, digitalised, analytical attention, allowing us to develop routines to