If we put your brain in a jar, would you be a person? Would you have normal consciousness? Honestly I don't know and I am not the person to ask.
But the brain is just a computer metaphor has flaws, particularly when you take account how poorly the brain is understood.
My issue was more just that people see the concept of a thinking machine and immediately reject it because it sounds silly, without thinking about it.
It was a serious statement at the time it was made, but it is clearly ludicrous. Like the universe created special states for arranging energy in just to make the human brain from.
This is very close to the question : Would you still be a person if your arms and legs were amputated, and you could not communicate.
I would hope you would see that the answer is : Of course you would be