We agree. The Chinese Room Argument offers little insight into consciousness. All it really does is to take someone with confused thoughts on how 'understanding

We agree. The Chinese Room Argument offers little insight into consciousness. All it really does is to take someone with confused thoughts on how 'understanding' works (specifically the way intellectual competence interacts with consciousness), and to tie them in a knot. It fails to demonstrate anything interesting about consciousness. It certainly doesn't demonstrate that computer systems can never be conscious in the way we can. Nothing in the argument applies any more or less to neurons than to transistors.