Beyond the Bat: Dissolving the Explanatory Gap Through Meaningful Integration

Thomas Nagel asked "What is it like to be a bat?" -- but the question rests on a flawed assumption: that experience consists of raw, meaning-independent qualia. This paper argues the assumption creates pseudoproblems that dissolve once we recognize experience is constituted by meaningful integration. I propose the Recursive Social Prediction (RSP) model: Level 1 (core affect) provides valence and arousal; Level 2 (core schemas) organizes experience through five foundational schemas; Level 3 subdivides into conceptual categorization (3a) and recursive self-modeling (3b), where social prediction is redirected at the self, constituting consciousness. The paper defends a strong dissolution of the hard problem, formalizes RSP across eight mathematical appendixes with cross-formalism equivalence proofs, and generates seven falsifiable predictions. It addresses nine philosophical objections and compares RSP against eighteen theories across ten families.