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Originally Posted by Secret Fawful
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Until it's explicitly stated on film or in print, it's still a mystery. Harrison Ford believes him to be human, Edward James Olmos and Ridley Scott think he's a replicant. The screenwriter of Blade Runner, Hampton Fancher, wrote him as a human but prefers that it be left ambiguous.
It's all just opinions at this point since the original writer Philip K. Dick never revealed whether Deckard was a replicant and it's also always been ambiguous in the script/text of the Blade Runner franchise. The original book, film, and it's sequel books never explicitly state one way or the other (some hint more towards him being human (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) and some point more towards him being a replicant (Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human).
I highly doubt that it will ever be made unambiguous. And, unless it actually ever does (since the original writer Philip K. Dick passed away) any opinions that Ridley Scott or anyone else involved with the franchise make will always just be opinions.