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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.
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We would like to thank the whole team of corvolution GmbH for collecting the data used for this analysis. In addition, we would like to thank the reviewers, who provided very helpful comments on the refinement of the paper.
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Buettner, R., Bachus, L., Konzmann, L., Prohaska, S. (2019). Asking Both the User’s Heart and Its Owner: Empirical Evidence for Substance Dualism. In: Davis, F., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01087-4_30
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