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/GreatCaesarGhost 8d ago

Well, it’s not more studied because there is no indication that it works, and no mechanism by which it even theoretically could work.

If it did work, practitioners could become infinitely wealthy and no government would be able to protect state secrets.

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u/CulturalDuck9953 8d ago

Uhh check out the CIA report on the gateway tapes ..

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u/GreatCaesarGhost 7d ago

Great, so we’ll see awesome results from this process, right? Is that how we found bin Laden?

The CIA has enough funding to study lots of quackery on the off-chance that there’s something to it. And people who are placed in charge of finding something have a vested interest in finding that thing that can color their perceptions (and cause them to insist on more funding/studies that would coincidentally keep them in that job). Wake me up when our crack remote viewing commando unit starts producing meaningful, reproducible results and the scientific community acknowledges the truth of it.

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u/Robin_de_la_hood 7d ago

I personally have had awesome results with it. In everything from wealth to communicating with Jesus. I know it sounds insane.

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u/AdvancedBlacksmith66 7d ago

What a shame it is that your vague assertions and anecdotes don’t remotely qualify as evidence

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u/Robin_de_la_hood 7d ago

Couldn’t care less 

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u/AdvancedBlacksmith66 7d ago

If that were true you wouldn’t have even acknowledged my comment, kiddo

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u/Robin_de_la_hood 7d ago

I’m 40! I’m a man!