The present paper address the relationship between science and consciousness by challenging the traditional distinction between internal, subjective properties and external, objective properties. This internal-external, subjective-objective dichotomy has led us to believe there is a 'gap' between the two types of properties (i.e. an epistemic gap), and the purpose of action, perception, and cognition is to assist the organism in making its internal, subjective states about (i.e. represent) external, objective reality. The wild stories perspective challenges the traditional input-computation-output approach to perception, cognition, and action, and draws our attention to the homological cortico-cerebellar neural architecture that underlies action, perception, and cognition and continually renders all three anticipatory (i.e. about the future), as memories of past actions, perceptions, and cognitions continually prime current cortical states. The paper then conceptualizes organisms as self-sustaining embodiments of context that are naturally and necessarily about the multi-scale contexts from which they emerged and in which they sustain themselves. From this perspective, every aspect of a self-sustaining system entails aboutness (i.e. is it about its context) and, therefore, represents its context. In short, organisms are meaning. The science of consciousness, then, is the science of embodied aboutness.
