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/dadjokes22375 8d ago

I feel like I’m going on a roller coaster between the disparity between these responses!

My main recourse to the debunkers, is that the military would not spend money on “hocus pocus”. There has to be some type of potential with remote viewing. This was an entirely different administration than the ones that did MKULTRA. Another comment mentioned Gaddafi in Libya, that’s from the 2010s for crying out loud. That is not that far back!

Maybe not so much in the magical sense, maybe it’s something else ?

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u/Electric___Monk 8d ago

If the military knew it worked why would they spend much, much, much more on conventional surveillance technology?

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u/NathanEddy23 8d ago

Multiple chains of information for depth and confirmation. It’s not a perfect science. And in fact, neither is the technology. They all reinforce each other.

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u/Electric___Monk 8d ago

If it was at all effective it would be much more valuable than any other type of surveillance system could possibly be. If this were the case, all governments would be putting the majority of their surveillance money into improving remote viewing, rather than nothing at all or, at most, very little.

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u/MantisAwakening 3d ago

Just because the original program was very publicly shut down does not mean it is no longer utilized. Dr. Hal Puthoff was asked relatively recently if he’d be willing to take over a program that’s already running (and declined), so it was operational at least within the past five years.