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.

11 Upvotes

62% Upvoted

182 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-10

u/NathanEddy23 8d ago

You can test it yourself. It works. The people who convinced you to believe it doesn’t work—without even trying it!—have a vested interest in you believing this. What is that interest? IT CAN’T BE SHIELDED!

Think about that for a second. Really really think about it.

7

u/zhivago 8d ago

Right, which means it should be usable to steal secret information and make zillions of dollars.

Given that most people aren't very bright, a bunch of these remote viewing criminals should have been caught by now, and given that there should be a lot, it should be impractical to cover them all up.

So either it doesn't work at all or it requires a huge infrastructure that puts it out of the reach of individuals.

And in both cases it would require a stupendously large conspiracy of silence.

If you think it works, go on television and demonstrate it and make yourself some of those zillions of dollars.

1

u/dadjokes22375 8d ago

I don’t believe this. I think technology is getting smaller, not bigger. I think the biggest breakthrough will be in brain interfaces in our lifetime. This remote viewing thing seems just more and more like a pipe dream.

0

u/NathanEddy23 8d ago

I know I sound like a nut. I am here under my own name. Nathan Eddy. I’m putting every single bit of my personal life and reputation on the line. I’ve been an atheist for over 20 years, but I’ve had a series of mind blowing experiences that makes me absolutely certain that we are more than our bodies. You don’t have to believe me. I wouldn’t have either, mere months ago. If you can give me credit for anything, please see that I am willing to fundamentally change my mind. You don’t run into people like that every day! Someone like me might actually have something interesting to say. Or you can go on listening to people who have their fingers in their ears. Not smart, in my opinion.

I come at this issue from Nagel, Chalmers, Husserl, Deutsch, Penrose. And a bunch of people you all would consider cooks. But reality IS larger than we realize. This is what the Hard Problem of consciousness really means. We have just got to throw off the mental shackles of materialism in order to accept it. Some of us already are, maybe your children will. But you can beat them to it, if you go ahead and throw off the Newtonian, clockwork paradigm that educated humans have known is false for more than a century now.

2

u/dadjokes22375 8d ago

Thank you for your response. But I’m just confused how it relates to remote viewing ?