Yet there is a knowledge, and conscious knowledge, 'in the body' such as how to ride a bicycle which, once learned, is never forgotten. How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings are fully endowed with the Tathagata's wisdom and power. And so, contrary to my assumption, consciousness as such has really nothing to do with I. Again, the Buddhist teachings are explicit. They list various kinds of consciousness, none of which need an I as focus. Thus, the eye may see a car and for this 'object' to emerge into awareness the corresponding eye-consciousness registers 'car'.
Response then follows of itself - the oncoming car is avoided.
The classic analogy for this is a man shot by a poisoned arrow, who will not have the arrow removed until he has found out who shot it, to which tribe he belongs, from which tree the arrow was made, from what the poison, etc. He would be dead before all this information was collected. It may usefully be undertaken after complying with the present emergency. A hammer is a most useful tool but only a fool would go fishing with it. To recapitulate, in this 'I'-less state or attitude of choiceless awareness, pure consciousness 'naturally' prevails and informs or guides appropriate reaction.