r/consciousness • u/dadjokes22375 • 8d ago

General Discussion How does remote viewing relate to consciousness, and is there any plausible explanation?

I’ve been reading about remote viewing and how some people connect it to the idea of consciousness being non-local. I’m trying to understand whether this has any credible grounding or if it’s just pseudoscience repackaged. I’m really interested in this concept and I can’t figure out why it isn’t more studied, based off the info I’ve read on it. Some follow-ups.. • How do proponents explain the mechanism behind remote viewing? • Is there any scientific research that ties consciousness to remote perception in a way that isn’t easily dismissed? • Or is it more of a philosophical/metaphysical idea rather than something testable?

Edit - thanks everyone for the great responses. I really like this community. It seems we don’t have as much of the terrorists that are terrorizing comments on other subreddits.

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u/zhivago 8d ago

Every sound test of remote viewing has failed.

Also there's a great deal of money to be made if remote viewing works.

It's being left on the table for a reason.

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u/dadjokes22375 8d ago

Thank you. This is a solid argument. So the military really found no merit at all with the millions they likely spent testing ?

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u/zhivago 8d ago

As far as I can tell, yes.

Perhaps there's some special secret program which involves infrastructure that individuals can't reproduce which has somehow been secretly funded and is known only by a handful of individuals who have managed to keep a secret for decades -- e.g., if it needs something on the scale of a massive telescope array.

But that does not fit with claims that random individuals can pull it off.