[Blind Eye Jones]

"It is the interpreter and the editor."

You're right about the functioning of the conscious mind, but interpretation is not creation. And editing, again, may be similar to craft. The artist, on an intuitive level, knows what the images mean. He probably knows that it came from some working deep inside himself and he has a choice (free will) to either go with the images or wait for a more inspiring insight or expression to come to him. Creation, art, personality, all imply an ordering process. This ordering can be done consciously or unconsciously, and I think that some great art has come about through the latter.

"the conscious function: to determine the use of the emotions and imagery in order to convey that to the audience, using craftsmanship as the medium."

I agree that it determines the use of the emotions and imagery (free will in choosing amongst various emotional laden images) but I doubt if it actually creates the images. It waits upon judgment from some other source, and then will choose whatever images may come.

[LexBaird]

We are rapidly reaching the level of semantics. I believe imagination (literally: the creation of images within the mind) is consciously controlled. It is a function of taking billions of discrete things from our experience and combining them in unique ways.

You posit that it springs from some unknowable outside source, which we are helpless to act without. We are compelled to await its input. At that point, our discussion passes beyond provable posits into the realm of faith. My faith is in Free Will; you are, to some extent, a predeterminist.