The place for the metaphor of awareness in scientific thinking

Abstract

The author invites us to consider the paradox that, being a scientific paradigm as effectively demonstrable in so many ways, it has no place for conceiving mind and spirit, and that being science a way of understanding which is based on the creation of models or metaphors, damage occurs when we restrict these models and metaphors and treat them as the "true" description of reality. Against this, the article explores the possibility of incorporating alternative metaphors, especially the metaphor of consciousness, to bring with it a broader understanding of the world for science.