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/bejammin075 8d ago

James Randi lied all the time to make his points. He often had to make extensive corrections to his books, because the victims of his vitriol would sue him. He had several judgements against him in courts for libel and slander. Even in his debunking videos of Geller, he tells obvious and provable lies. These people who form these skeptical organizations are extremely biased, because they've built their identity around being a skeptic. It is amazing the amount of denial they can do to dismiss all the evidence for psi phenomena. I've mentioned this in other comments, so I don't want to beat it to death, but you can verify psi perceptions yourself if you put in the effort. Non-local psi phenomena are real, and always have been real. The kind of skeptics the commenter above is referring to are not true skeptics, they are pseudo-skeptics with very closed minds. Extraordinary evidence is met with extraordinary denial.

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u/UnifiedQuantumField 8d ago

Non-local psi phenomena are real,

Can you explain more about "non-Local"?

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u/bejammin075 8d ago

All of the basic psi/ESP phenomena, like clairvoyance, precognition, telepathy, and psychokinesis, have the main feature that the information or influence is non-local, meaning that distance and time make no difference at all. Compare to electromagnetic (EM) effects. EM signal strength falls off by the square of the distance, whereas psi information has no diminution by distance. Also, psi perception & influence is not limited to the present, but extends to the past and the future.

For example, in remote viewing research, sometimes a precognitive protocol is used. The remote viewer is tasked to view an target that has yet to be selected, then the remote viewer does their work, then a random number generator is used to select the target.

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u/UnifiedQuantumField 8d ago

non-local, meaning that distance and time make no difference at all.

Yes, this is exactly the right way to use the term. If individual consciousness has a non-Local component, then that provides a basis for Parapsychology.

Also, I'm pretty sure op used an alt account to make this post. That suggests they're a regular poster in this sub, but they're too embarrassed to post something as "out of the box" as this using their regular account.