The Mystery of Intuition

Could it be that most of the information we get, we are not immediately consciously aware of, but we're able to access it through something like what we call intuition or instinct? That the self doesn't exist at this level of processing. Animals could be a type of biological algorithm playing out where they perform complex biological functions, but lack the subjective experience that we have. This is the potential cost of these conversations about consciousness. People already create consciousness hierarchies based on almost nothing.