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".