This is a good point. The chinese room seems to stem from a more antiquated system of serial processing and the analogy doesn't quite hold when we look at the m

This is a good point. The chinese room seems to stem from a more antiquated system of serial processing and the analogy doesn't quite hold when we look at the massive parallelism that occurs in the human mind that gives us consciousness. Furthermore humans can still think in the absence of understanding. In fact id argue a majority thoughts by people are conjugated without full understanding of the subject of the thought.