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But the human-ness of the person inside the room is not important. It's just there to follow simple instructions. I think Searle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle) put a human in the room to help us empathize and understand that the person in the room doesn't understand Chinese. It simplifies the argument by avoiding the introduction of computers into the setup.