ABSTRACT
The discussion in this chapter relates different models of metaphorical reasoning and reconsiders the nature of storytelling in the context of making something. My thesis is that the capability of consciousness to hold multiple details active provides a mechanism of coordination that is extended in time. In effect, cognitive studies of problem solving have only described the flow and products of this mechanism, wrongly attributing aspects of conceptual thinking to subconscious perceptual processes and misconstruing the coupling of perception to conception as another form of interleaved inference.
