Good question. My analogy wasn't perfect, but here's what I was alluding to: The programming (which we cannot see/read) is always in control. It makes all decisions. The decisions it makes spring into our consciousness, seemingly up from nowhere, as thoughts/drives/impulses/actions/aversions/etc. So, we don't actually experience the unconscious or subconscious, just it's output. And then we often attribute the unknown source to something like one's "muse" or one's "God".