Methodologically speaking, it may be better to speak initially about the desire for knowledge being for omni-temporal knowledge rather than for knowledge of the infinite. There is still something towards-God about omni-temporal, and even if that is not apparent, it gives one a platform for exploring the desire for knowledge of God. In other words, it may be better to explore first the desire for knowledge that is God-LIKE and thereafter the desire of knowledge OF God. Thus avoiding appearing of logical leap-taking.
This is a nice way to try to avoid being cornered re the irreality of the self if you're a reductionist, for you can assert that a pattern obtains at the microscopic level that is not all that unlike the pattern found at the societal level. No need for the one self that does it all: instead, you have many sub-selfs that compete for dominance or take turns guiding the whole. The problem with this is, however, that the voters/officials are all zombies. None of them thinks about the whole as such. And perhaps none of them thinks even about themselves (unless one is a panzoist). None of them makes a comparison of alternatives. The more this proposed democracy seems like a zombocracy, the more consciousness will be seem to be epiphenomenal. Furthermore, if the oneness of the self is less real than the multiplicity of explanatory neural parts, then why can't each of these neural parts be conceived of as democracy as well? And why not parts of these parts, et...
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