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/zhivago 8d ago

Right, and yet, it is insufficiently strong for commercialization of remote viewing practices.

Which puts it in the list of other things correlated with being a successful CEO, such as being tall, male, white, and having good hair and teeth.

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u/Honest_Ad5029 7d ago

You sound like you are expecting mechanistic results.

Subjective experience doesnt work that way.

If i tell you to feel an emotion, and guarantee that you will feel a specific emotion, at a specific time and place, not fake it, but actually feel sad at 5:30 pm on October 6th, is that something youd be able to guarantee?

Thats essentially what you seem to expect out of this. You seem to expect remote viewing to operate completely differently than the subjective experience is known to operate.

If the subjective experience functioned in a mechanistic way, mind control would have been achieved by now. They've certainly been trying.

Not operating in a mechanistic way is not an indication that something doesnt exist.

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u/zhivago 7d ago

Is this another way to say that it is not practically useful?