Nothing is intrinsically a digital computer
The syntactic structues that define computers are realisable in any physical system. Hence, the question "is a brain a digital computer?" is ill-defined because the relevant syntax can be ascribed to any sufficiently complex system.

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John Searle, 1992.

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