An important tool in this endeavor is another kind of information processor: the digital computer.

If a computer is someday used to simulate the biological information processor we call the brain, then couldn't the machine be said to think?

The brain is presumably some kind of information processor.

The third, motivated by the computer, the dominant machine of today, sees the universe as a large information processor.

Next to the brain, the most obvious biological information processor is the genetic machinery of the cell.

The output of one process may well form the input for another information processor.

And the world would reveal itself as a calculating machine, an information processor.

In general, teams either act as information processors, or take on a more active role in the task and actually per form activities.

Ever since, there has been a growing effort to explain the brain, the body, civilization and, most recently, the universe itself as information processors.

After all, the mind itself can be viewed as a machine, an information processor.