The Observer Constraint: Why Real-Time Qualia Cannot Be Fully Explained Within Physical Causality

This paper proposes that the fundamental reason consciousness cannot be fully explained lies in the fact that the observer is identical with the system of observation. Because observation is constrained by relativistic limits — specifically, the finite speed of light — real-time qualia cannot be captured or represented within physical causality. The immediacy of experience and the temporal delay inherent in observation share a structural isomorphism. This correspondence suggests that the limits of subjective experience are not accidental but reflect the same boundary conditions that govern all physical interactions. The theory thus links the phenomenological inaccessibility of real-time qualia with the epistemic horizon implied by relativistic constraints.