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I think therefore I am a computer
What you call 'I' is merely a pattern of information processing, and has no fundamental existence in time or space. Therefore it cannot be said to exist at all. It is not something which can be called real, rather it exists only in the sense that I am sure it does.
You as a person are an information processing system, and that is all. A complex one indeed, but still just a pattern of information processing.
However, the collection of all such information processing systems that exist is what we call society. It can be said to have an existence in time and space as it is a large collection of information processing which processes itself by interacting with its environment.
Society is also just an information processing system, but far more complicated than any individual person.
Therefore, society is itself real, but the individual person is not.
So, it is not me who says that you are just a pattern of information processing. It is the very definition of 'I'. What I am saying is that you are this collection if information processing systems which we call society.