Monist vs. Dualist Experiment?

[Neo-Scholastic]

Contradictory to itself. Which is what self-contradictory means.
And logic is the primary mode of inquiry within philosophy. Any contradiction indicates a misapplication or an error.

What's the "it" that is contradicting itself?

Sure:
Data processing is "the collection and manipulation of items of data to produce meaningful information."

Spoken like a true substance dualist. Tell me, if I look at a strange system, how am I to know whether it is collecting and manipulating "meaningful" information, or just part of the ongoing cascade of packets of energy moving around the universe?

Correct! And that is exactly why I believe 1) substance dualism and 2) that physical monist theories of mind lead to existencial nihilism, I.e. a purely physical system is in itself meaningless.