When someone utters the phrase, "The brain is of course just a computer"

This tells you two things:

1. This person doesn't actually know that much about the brain/body/consciousness/etc.

2. You might also want to be suspicious about this person's thoughts on how computers work, too

@researchfairy They demonstrate only ignorance. Robert Anton Wilson's take on this in Prometheus Rising, whilst not scientistic in nature, was pretty clear that the brain isn't a computer. It may resemble one, but this is largely only because individual components of a modern computer system are patterned after the nervous system but only to a small extent. There's no true analogy. They are committing a category error. The view has no place in rational theory, and neither does behaviourism.