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Full Idea
If the brain is a digital computer, we are still faced with the question 'Who is the user?'
Gist of Idea
If we are computers, who is the user?
Source
John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch. 9.VI)
Book Ref
Searle,John R.: 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' [MIT 1999], p.214
A Reaction
A very nice question. Our whole current concept of a computer involves the unmentioned user. We don't have to go all mystical about persons, though. Robots aren't logically impossible.