The introduction frames the book’s central problematic: How can thinking be both in the world and about the world? To address this, it develops the concept of fractured immanence, a metaphysical framework that integrates our dual perspectives on the mind-world relation: mind and nature are not ontologically distinct regions of being (they are both ways of being processes) yet diverge in the order of understanding, a tension enabling their ongoing self-correcting interplay as concepts without presupposing transcendence or complete mutual transparency. The introduction also situates fractured immanence as a way to rethink emergence and freedom not as transcendent structures but as processual expressions of being. Normativity is embedded in this framework by being understood as an emergent intensive regime whose function is hyperstitional: it stabilizes and projects ideal possible worlds expressed by unactualized universals, and performatively makes them actual over time by collectively treating them as real.