Who am I?

When I think about who I am, I find myself having to convince myself that I am a combination of my physical self, my brain (a mentally conscious self), and a sub-conscious.

I wonder how an instinct appears in my mind. By instinct, I refer to an intuition or gut feel about the weather, about something bad going to happen, etc. I wonder where the thought came from, whether it was triggered by the environment, or by my thoughts, or by something I am unconscious about. I wonder how I become conscious of something I am unconscious about. I could say that I had the knowledge beforehand, but where did that knowledge about the future come from?

I wonder whether luck and coindences are really random chance events. A coincidence could have both good and bad outcomes. A good outcome could be a near-miss accident, avoiding a potentially time-wasting detour, winning a lottery, etc. A bad outcome could be meeting an accident, getting stucked in bad traffic, being hit by bird shit, etc. While I could say that I could also have had the knowledge beforehand, where did that knowledge about the future come from?

Foresight is sometimes seen a skill to be able to predict the future based on experience and whatever it currently known. Is it entirely just about how intelligent the brain is? Why do some people have differing views of the future? Does it mean that our brain is capable of predicting the future, but with different levels of accuracies? If it could predict the future, where did that knowledge about the future come from?

How about moments of invention and innovation where no books had documented the idea? Was the idea a result of the brains ability to generate new ideas or did the idea already existed somewhere, but just had not been articulated? For example, the concept of atoms, gravity, energy, etc. Am I merely waking up my dormant knowledge base by my conscious acts of learning? Am I getting educated unconsciously? Is my sub-conscious accessing a universal book of knowledge while I sleep and dream?

I am inclined to believe that my brain is supported by something I am unconscious of -- sub-conscious. How else do I explain why I can continuously learn and apply what I learn? How else do I explain how I create new ideas? As I become more conscious of the existence of my sub-conscious, I find myself instinctly knowing more things. I find myself relying less on the rational and objective thought process to learn and understand how things work. However, this feeling is different from an emotionally-driven feeling such as "I feel like the stock market will rise tomorrow"; It's more like a feeling that goes like "I have considered rational factors X and Y, and I seem to be lacking something, but I don't know what and I can't explain, but I think I am heading the right way". Overall, it saves me a lot of time and helps me get more work done quicker.

What I mean to be conscious of my sub-conscious, is consciously telling my brain to acknowledge the presence of my sub-conscious and trust what it does. I don't know what or where my sub-conscious is. We have never communicated. I don't know how it interacts with my brain. Just from consciously knowing that I have gained access to knowledge which I am unconscious of, I am convinced that my brain had received help from someone or somewhere, but I don't know what or where. It could be a guardian angel or a god that was present. It could be an invisible and omniscient knowledge base. It could be anything but I don't know what or where it is. 

I know that I am a person. A person with a physical self and brain. I also think that my sub-conscious exists.

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