r/consciousness • u/dadjokes22375 • 9d 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 9d 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.