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Your concept of “I” is not truly what dominates over your other supposedly subordinate (supposedly subservient) thoughts.  All thoughts — including the concept of “I” (or that internal “me”) — are conditioned responses… and, as such, one does not (in reality) truly dominate over the others.  Profound awareness and immense intelligence transcends conditioning (at least to some significant extent) and goes beyond the deep misconceptions that the aforementioned sentence suggests.  Via erroneous (primitive) education, billions are saturated with such substantial misconceptions and delusions (of a “central controller”)… and this, in turn, causes much needless friction and deceit (within the brain) which often projects as additional disorder both within the brain and out from the brain.  Better education could help to change things for the better.  We, as a society, have a long way to go before we transcend out of very psychologically crude, primitive realms.  True freedom lies not in the concept of free will, but in the daily, intelligent (method-free) understanding of the mind, which may allow one to actually joyfully exist (at times) beyond the limited field of total conditioning.  With such freedom comes real goodness and order (beyond mere reactions).

(Added note: This is one fundamental reason why so very few, throughout the world — over time — have truly been enlightened.  A process or technique developed or utilized by a fictitious center cannot ever find profound truth; the profound truth comes only when conditioning and needless conflict, friction, and deceit are dissipated… and not dissipated by some supposed central agent that is — in itself — a major result of ignorance and conditioning.  For so many — for so long — it has been like throwing water to drowning people in order to save them!) 

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Jumping spider in Lily. (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2015

Jumping spider in Lily. (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2015