Ask HN: Compsci as the overlap between mathematics and storytelling?

Events lately have encouraged me to consider the nature of narrative, and the phenomenon of how human society collectively synthesizes meaning out of data. I wonder if there is any formalized research into how computer science concepts may model this. I've also long held feelings that compsci and information theory may reveal a solid theory of everything, including conscious experience and I wonder if anyone has seriously chased up that line of curiosity.