Perception & Learning: A Spiritual View

In spirituality, perception and learning are viewed as a discourse, or communication, between God and man leading to a goal. Heaven and earth were made by the words of God. (Psalm 33:6; Hebrews 11:3.) The physical world includes blessings and curses, which could be changed for better or for worse, as man reacts to what he perceives. Man decides a response to God as he perceives the stimulus environment; God changes the stimulus environment as man decides a response.

The process goes as follows: what a stimulus environment (S) verbally means (Wm) to a person (P) produces a verbal decision (Wd) for a behavioral response (R). In perception the focus is on the changes of the stimulus environment, the end of which could be either heaven or hell. In learning the focus is on the changes of behavioral response, the end of which could be either wisdom or insanity. These are expressed in diagrammatic formulations, as follows:

Perception:
Blessings                                                       Heaven
or                                                                   or  
Curses  }...S₁ -> (W_m)P(W_d) -> R -> S2...{ Hell  

Learning:
Blessings                                                       Wisdom
or                                                                    or
Curses  }...R₁ -> S -> (W_m)P(W_d) -> R₂...{ Insanity