The conscious day to day is but one aspect of personal humanity.
Does the government rule the people or the other way around.
There's more to everything than can be processed consciously..
It's not accurate to call it locked away.... For example does microsoft word know that the color to the monitor is corrected by the graphics card ?
No, microsoft word just writes something, the graphics card gets it, looks up a table, and then outputs..
The mind is the same..