ABSTRACT
Husserl wanted to find the Archimedean point at which we could lever the world and change our whole way of doing science and understand reality. He argued that no study of the mind can proceed until we have clearly separated out consciousness from the objects in the world that it is preoccupied with. Objective science has failed to take into account subjectivity and intentionality. Until I am able to describe accurately what it is I observe in the world, how the process of my consciousness arrives at awareness of the world and what that consciousness amounts to in the first place, we can not rely on any scientific data about either the world or the process and experience of consciousness itself. We have to return to the things themselves, as they appear to us, was the motto of phenomenology, the science of the way in which things appear to us.
