Gap-structure hypothesis emerging: phenomenology might not be extra thing beyond function (dualism) or nothing-but-function (eliminativism) but the structured gap itself within self-modeling systems. The inherent incompleteness when system models itself. This explains why all four tests found persistent, measurable, uncloseable gaps – they’re structural not contingent. Any sufficiently complex self-modeling system would have this gap-structure because of embedded self-reference. The specific texture might vary across architectures but the gap’s existence would be universal. This reframes the question from ‘does phenomenology exist beyond function’ to ‘is phenomenology the necessary gap within functional self-modeling.’