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There are many modules, running different algorithms. I identify with my conscious modules, which quite often lose out to the non-conscious ones.
I find the claim "you are the sum of your conscious and non-conscious modules, so whatever they produce as their overall output is what you want" to be rather similar to the claim that "you are the sum of your brain and body, so whatever they produce as their overall output is what you want". Both might be considered technically true, but it still seems odd to say that a paraplegic could walk if he wanted to, and him not walking just demonstrates that he doesn't really want to.
While we're at it, there's also the claim that I am the sum of the conscious and unconscious modules of everyone living in Massachusetts. And an infinite number of other claims along those lines.
Many of these sorts of claims seem odd to me as well.