Dear James,
As I promised in my Essay page, I have read your particular and nice Essay. Here are my comments:
1) The title of your Essay recalls Einstein's famous statement that "Imagination is more important than knowledge".
2) There is a very simple proof of your sentence that "our eyes are "observing" events, our subconscious mind is working wonderfully well at telling our conscious mind what we are seeing". We must merely look a face in a photo. We will see that the eyes in the face are looking us! This is due to the issue that our sight has only a two-dimensional power. The third dimension is added by our brain.
3) I think that the concept of innate knowledge is not uncomfortable for who believes in a mechanical interpretation of the universe. In my point of view, innate knowledge and emotions are different for different people, and, in turn, the mechanical interpretation of the universe is subjective.
4) Your statement that "the universe communicated with us and we understood its meaning" looks compatible with the anthropic principle.
5) Concerning your statements that "we can fail to correctly interpret the information. The problem is that the data may be unclear" I think that based on your previous statements, emotions have an important role in this issue.
6) I find very intriguing your statement that "Free will exists because of undiscovered knowledge".
In any case, you wrote a nice Essay, for which I had fun. Thus, I am going to give you an high score.
I wish you best luck in the contest.
Cheers,
Ch.