Consciousness and the limits of science

Science has worked and been so successful because it has identified patterns and laws in the universe that are predictable and natural.

The whole point of science is the discovery that most of the universe doesn't work the way our minds work. If we think of how our minds work - in terms of emotion, experience, value, ethics, meaning and so on - we don't use any of those categories in scientific explanation.

Crops don't grow because we have been well behaved, the speed of light isn't constant to reward us for good behaviour.

Even when we get into the realm of explaining the mind with science, science doesn't operate with values or ethics, the metaphors used are still natural - things are explained due to chemical operations in the brain, or from natural selection or other unconscious mechanisms.

Science has explained phenomena that appear to have meaning in terms of things that don't have meaning or value - that is always the way round things are. Even science explaining why we have ethics and values turns out to be an explanation of how, not why.

So when we finally get to understanding consciousness we have this massive problem. Do we explain consciousness in terms of unconscious mechanisms - which essentially means we explain it away - or are we somehow able to provide explanations in terms of meaning and value and the language of consciousness, and if so how is that still science?

What does it even mean to explain something with reference to purpose and intention - retaining consciousness in the explanation? Can we ever achieve a final meaning or explanation with or without science?