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You can't see what you do not believe. That's just your hardware limitation. If there's no logical model for something your perception will filter it out. If you can read this you probably knew it already.

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Is it possible for people to surpass their hardware limits, like self adaptive FPGAs, or are all our limits hardwired?

Meditate until you top level pattern matching code is not influencing your low level perception and new patterns are formed based on the true inputs.

This is very good advice. I think meditation allows you to reconnect with your lower level perceptions, both in terms of better understanding of past events and a better ability to remain calm and fully present in the midst of current events.

"I believe that true meditation is about detecting self-deception." Jorn Barger http://www.robotwisdom.com/weblogs/selfknowledge.html

Sounds like a line edited out of the original Matrix ;)

Perhaps, but it's probably true. I don't know about other people, but I've been able to identify (at least I think I have been able to) some of the parts of my thought process that do pattern-matching through meditation.

It's a very strange experience, but wonderful (on multiple levels).

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