Replace Chinese with logarithm and the Chinese Room seems ridiculous. Searle could produce logarithms without knowing logarithms, that doesn't mean the knowledg

Replace Chinese with logarithm and the Chinese Room seems ridiculous. Searle could produce logarithms without knowing logarithms, that doesn't mean the knowledge to produce a logarithm isn't contained in the room -- just that Searle isn't where that information is encoded. By the same logic, a computer can't perform any operation because the RAM can't perform operations.