My conscious mind is more disconnected from my natural human feelings and my natural human motives and agendas than most people's is. As best as I can tell, that makes it more difficult for me to motivate myself to do things that any sane person would agree I need to do regardless of the details of what my goals or motives are. But also, as best as I can tell, my conscious mind is also significantly less prone to self-deception than most people's is. (And yes, I realize that in this community, that is a boast.) The fact that the conscious mind tended to serve in the EEA as the public-relations officer of the mind does not in any way make it less probable that every human is completely dependent on the conscious mind for rationality -- at least the kind of rationality necessary for science, philanthropy and effective pursuit of long-term self-interest.