{"product_id":"three-layers-of-mind-kim-jzurgensen-9798278562016","title":"Three layers of mind: The reflective emergent agency model","description":"\u003cbr\u003eDavid Chalmers' Hard Problem has resisted thirty years of progress in neuroscience and AI. Physicalism omits experience, dualism breaks physics, and panpsychism cannot solve combination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Reflective Emergent Agency Model (REAM) dissolves the stalemate with one move: what we call \"consciousness\" is not one property but three ontologically distinct layers that arise sequentially and decouple routinely in dreams, psychedelics, meditation, and pathology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLayer 1 (Raw Observer) is the fundamental experiential field shaped but not produced by integrated information (Φ \u0026gt; 0). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLayer 2 (Reflective Actor) emerges with recurrent self-modelling, producing genuine hesitation and internal conflict. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLayer 3 (Horizon of Choice) is the felt extent of valued possible futures and the developmental skill of freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe architecture explains why lucid dreams restore agency without changing vividness, why ego-dissolving psychedelics feel hyper-real, and why prefrontal damage can collapse moral responsibility while leaving raw experience intact. It rules out p-zombies by definition, downgrades the Combination Problem to a tractable integration challenge, and offers the first principled, measurable account of machine consciousness and collective observers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with analytic clarity and grounded in first-person phenomenology, REAM is the first unified theory of mind that accommodates the full range of human and non-human experience without denying physics, experience, or moral intuition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kim Jørgensen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798278562016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.17d","brand":"Kim Jørgensen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997360468223,"sku":"9798278562016","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/three-layers-of-mind-kim-jzurgensen-9798278562016","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}