Asking Both the User’s Heart and Its Owner: Empirical Evidence for Substance Dualism

Ricardo Buettner (), Lars Bachus, Larissa Konzmann and Sebastian Prohaska
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Ricardo Buettner: Aalen University
Lars Bachus: Aalen University
Larissa Konzmann: Aalen University
Sebastian Prohaska: Aalen University

A chapter in Information Systems and Neuroscience, 2019, pp 251-257 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Mind-body physicalism is the metaphysical view that all mental phenomena are ultimately physical phenomena, or are necessitated by physical phenomena. Mind-body dualism is the view that at least some mental phenomena are non-physical. While mind-related concepts are usually measured using questionnaires, body-related concepts are measured using physiological instruments. We breakdown the narrowed measuring approaches within the simplified mind-body discussion to all four possible substance-measuring pairs and evaluate the mind-body substance dualism theory versus the physicalism theory applying perceived and physiological measured stress data using a wearable long-term electrocardiogram recorder. As a result we derive empirical evidence and strong arguments against physicalism, and assess the overall strength of the benefits of NeuroIS instruments as complementary measures.

Keywords: NeuroIS; Mind-body problem; Substance dualism; Physicalism; Stress; Health data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01087-4_30

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