We can alter our programming, even at the unconscious level. In fact, every door in the neural network that gates sensory inputs can be altered if desired. We can, in fact, open the doors of perception if we wish to do so, as widely as we wish to do. The ability to alter unconscious sensory gating at will, as Kiefer et al. comment, “ensures the adaptability of cognition even in the unconscious domain.”12 And, the more we practice intentionally opening the doors of perception, the more easily and more fully we can do so. As
