The reason why human experience is inherently theory laden is because of the infinitizing tendency of our cogitations about things. We tend to extrapolate beyond not only my experience up till now and my expected future experience, but our future possible experience (after all, we think together via language), and beyond even that to what would be thought about the matter by one or many rational beings capable of knowing reality in all of its factors. When we seek the truth of the matter, we are chasing after God's thoughts.
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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