Meaning Machines: Nick Cook on Consciousness, UFOs, and the Reframing of Reality

Dreamland Podcast presents a feature titled Meaning Machines, in which Nick Cook—a defense-technology journalist and author of The Hunt for Zero Point—discusses his career, his new book, and how his research into consciousness and the UFO phenomenon leads to overarching conclusions about reality. Cook’s recent project, The Light Beyond The Mountains, was serialized on Rogue Icons. By integrating ideas from Donald Hoffman, Ingo Swann, Philip K. Dick, Robert Bigelow, Edgar Mitchell, Jacques Vallee, Garry Nolan, and others, he reframes questions about reality, humanity, plasma, and the UFO mystery. A free video version is available on YouTube, with a subscriber-only version behind login. The piece points to additional work on Rogue Icons for more of Cook’s ideas and is tagged with topics such as Alien, Consciousness, gravitics, plasma, simulation, UAP, UFOs, and zero point. The page also hosts a reader comments thread in which attendees discuss a worldview of reality as a layered, cosmic geometry–driven simulation, the presence of multiple extraterrestrial types, and notions like ancient machine intelligence and the evolving potential of human consciousness. Some comments touch on the idea that experiences are a form of food for a universal intelligence, while others speculate about disclosure—its gradual pace, the entertainment industry’s role, and questions of government credibility—often referencing drone/UAP events and related public discourse.
Source: unknowncountry.com
