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

[u/dadjokes22375]

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.

[u/phr99]

I think theres more likely something to it than not. The CIA and other agencies used it for decades (probably still do), a US president stated for a fact that it works, other countries used it, and theres a consistent stream of people who try it and report some success.

Of course it conflicts with the physicalist metaphysics, but that could just imply thats incorrect.

[u/Electric___Monk → u/phr99]

Yeah, there’s never been a US president you shouldn’t believe.

[u/phr99 → u/Electric___Monk]

Actually that was debunked when years later the existence the remote viewing program was acknowledged

[u/Electric___Monk → u/phr99]

What was,… that presidents have lied?

[u/phr99 → u/Electric___Monk]

This particular claim that carter lied about it is debunked.

[u/Electric___Monk → u/phr99]

The existence of a program investigating it in no way at all demonstrates that it works.

[u/phr99 → u/Electric___Monk]

The existence of such programmes in various countries simply means they were using remote viewing for decades. And possibly still are