Sorry I misread your question, I apologize. Our conclusions are drawn from: (1) our experiences, and (2) our conclusions about our experiences. The thing is, our conclusions are experiences too – we experience our conclusions.

Consider how you have a voice inside your mind talking to you. Hearing what the voice says to you is an experience, like hearing what another person says is an experience. You are aware of your voice and their voices. Both are present in your conscious mind.

Both science and Zen principles see it this way. When you meditate, everything in your mind is something the “aware” you witnesses – in effect, you become awareness, such that you are only awareness.

Some of our conclusions are drawn from our unconscious minds. And of course we don’t experience our unconscious minds processing our experiences and coming to new conclusions. The conclusions just suddenly appear in consciousness, a fait accompli.

Science says that the unconscious and conscious parts of your mind operate the same way. Typically, your unconscious draws the conclusions if it can, and if it can’t, it passes the question up to the conscious mind.

Essentially, a mystical or Platonic person believes the unconscious mind is receiving input that is invisible to your conscious mind – input coming from the cosmos, God, the universal consciousness, or somewhere or something else. I don’t deny the possibility of that, it just seems speculative.

If we can’t observe our unconscious in operation, how could we settle that question? How can anyone say that a blank photo with nothing in it is a photo of something, and then tell us what that something is?