These thought experiments rest on the assumption that human brains are magically complex such that being "just" anything we can understand is inherently lesser.

These thought experiments rest on the assumption that human brains are magically complex such that being "just" anything we can understand is inherently lesser. Searle's Chinese Room experiment falls for the same fallacy, more-or-less, plus the fallacy that "human plus book" isn't a single system but "huge number of individual neurons" somehow is.