A New Kind of Intelligence Is Taking Over – But It Isn’t Yours
In Dr Tom Barber’s newest book, Unmachine Your Mind, we explore the path we are living, through the greatest psychological shift in human history. Not because of politics. Not even because of war. But because of code.
Every day, artificial intelligence becomes more woven into the fabric of our decisions, desires, relationships, and routines. It curates what we see, predicts what we think, and nudges what we do. Most people still believe they are in control. Most are wrong.
Unmachine Your Mind is a groundbreaking book that reveals how human cognition is being quietly reshaped by digital systems. It’s not just about technology. It’s about identity, autonomy, and what it means to stay human in an age of accelerating simulation.
This book is not another tech scare story. Nor is it a call to abandon progress. It is an invitation to go deeper. To reclaim what machines cannot replicate. To build a new kind of intelligence – one rooted in emotion, embodiment, and meaning.
What If You’re Thinking with a Mind That Isn’t Yours?
From the moment we wake up, we are bombarded. Notifications, scrolls, swipes, alerts. Each one seems harmless. But collectively, they change the way we process the world. We become faster, but not wiser. More informed, but less understanding. Trapped in loops of urgency, distraction, and noise.
In the book’s opening chapter, The Cognitive Crisis, you’ll meet high-performing executives, therapists, creatives, and thinkers who are struggling with a hidden problem: they feel like their minds are no longer their own. They’re productive, but not present. Intelligent, but disconnected. It’s not a failure of willpower. It’s the consequence of a system optimised for output, not insight.
Here’s where the book begins to dig deeper. It asks: what is intelligence, really? Is it the ability to process more, or the ability to perceive more meaningfully? Can machines ever truly understand, or do they just simulate? What happens when humans start mimicking those simulations in return?
Introducing Psychernetics: The Blueprint to Unmachine Your Mind
To answer these questions, Unmachine Your Mind introduces a powerful new model called Psychernetics. This is not a rehash of mindfulness or a list of productivity hacks. It is a living system for reprogramming your inner world before the outer world does it for you.
At its core, Psychernetics helps you build what the book calls your Co-Pilot™ – an internal guidance system for decision-making, meaning-making, and emotional intelligence in a machine-optimised world.
You will learn how to design this system consciously, so that your values are not overwritten by algorithms, and your sense of self is not outsourced to synthetic feedback.
Through stories, reflections, client metaphors, and cutting-edge research, the book guides you through a psychological transformation. You’ll explore how memory lives in the body, how identity is formed in reflection, how emotion can become intelligence, and how awareness can be the ultimate act of resistance.
The Battle for the Self Is Already Underway
As the book unfolds, it delves into the darker side of our digital culture. We are not just users anymore. We are data sets, behavioural patterns, predictive outputs. Social media does not simply reflect who we are – it shapes who we become.
In the chapter From Synthetic to Sovereign, the book exposes how simulated identity is sold back to us in the form of avatars, filters, and optimised personas.
But this isn’t just a cultural critique. It’s a psychological call to arms. You’ll discover how to reclaim authenticity in a world designed to fragment it. You’ll learn how to reintroduce depth where there is only surface, and how to locate your personal truth in a sea of synthetic consensus.
It’s not about rejecting technology. It’s about outgrowing it. About using it consciously rather than being unconsciously used by it.
A Book for Thinkers, Leaders, and Those Who Know There’s More
Whether you’re an executive wrestling with information overload, a therapist seeking new tools, or simply a curious mind watching the world transform before your eyes, this book is for you.
It is written in clear, poetic language, without jargon or hype. Every chapter is crafted to help you slow down, think deeper, and reconnect with your own sovereignty.
Unmachine Your Mind is more than a book. It is a wake-up call. A framework. A movement. It challenges the narrative that faster is better, that more is smarter, that synthetic is superior. It speaks to the part of you that still feels, still wonders, still questions. That knows something essential is slipping, and wants it back.
Join the Unmachine Your Mind Movement Before the Machines Do
By the time you finish reading Unmachine Your Mind, you will not only think differently, you’ll feel different. You’ll see your phone, your feed, your future through new eyes. And most importantly, you’ll begin to build the only kind of intelligence that cannot be automated – the kind that makes you truly, radically human. This is your invitation.
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Author: Dr Tom Barber
Dr Tom Barber is a #1 bestselling author, UKCP psychotherapist, EMDR, Hypnosis & NLP expert, and creator of Psychernetics™. He specialises in helping people with trauma and works primarily with executive and HNW individuals from his base in Essex, UK, and globally online.
