What is the difference between the conscious I and the unconscious I?
The conscious I consists of definitions created by intellect and identifies with them, while the unconscious I consists of recurring reactions that have not yet been definable by intellect but have been recognized, with which consciousness also identifies.
The conscious I consists of definitions created by intellect. If there is not yet enough information to create a definition, intellect is only able to define the repetition and the identical reaction to it, which appears as emotion. Consciousness also identifies with these emotions, but because there is not yet a recognized causal relationship between the experiences and the reactions, it cannot explain why it does what it does or why something happens.
The absence of a causal relationship constitutes unconsciousness, but because consciousness identifies with the one who experiences the feeling and acts, the appearing emotion is also I-identical. This I becomes unconscious because there is no definition in consciousness to explain its actions.
In the developmental process of consciousness, the unconscious I first contains, based on experiences, those recurring experiences that intellect has already recognized from the information available to it, and based on later experiences it will then be able to create definitions for them as well.
The definitions will initially be imprecise, therefore the emotions remain, and the reactions of consciousness will not follow its definitions, but later, as the reactions become increasingly precise with the accumulation of experiences, the emotions appear with decreasing intensity.
When the definitions of the conscious I describe the appearing experience perfectly, the emotion disappears completely, because consciousness knows precisely why something happens as a clear and known law.
The boundary between the conscious and unconscious I therefore cannot be precisely defined, because all our definitions are accompanied by emotions that do not yet perfectly describe the appearing reality.
According to the development of consciousness, new laws always first evoke emotions, which we come to know and understand increasingly well, and thus the emotions continuously weaken and disappear, but this does not mean that the Human’s emotional world would be lost during development; quite the contrary.
The laws that have been known make it possible to know more and more further laws, which likewise first appear as emotions, as long as intellect is still unable to create definitions for the new experiences that appear.
The emotions that have already been known therefore always return when new laws appear in recognizable form in new experiences. Since the laws that have been known make it possible to know more and more further laws, the appearing emotions also appear in newer and newer forms, and thus more and more kinds of appearing emotions emerge, which also expand and develop our emotional world, so our unconscious I also continuously develops its ability to recognize more and more emotions.