To be honest, I never understood his argument at all. If consciousness is a sort of information sheaf attached to spacetime that "measures" (in some yet-to-be-d

To be honest, I never understood his argument at all. If consciousness is a sort of information sheaf attached to spacetime that "measures" (in some yet-to-be-determined mathematically precise way) certains canonical kinds of information flow (e.g., recursion, self-reference, entwined causality) over all possible sets in the topology, then the Chinese room would be isomorphic to the mind. One also has to consider its interactions with the external environment. What if everything else in the universe was "Chinese-roomized" so that time and space scale appropriately? That's the same consciousness sheaf on the same space doing the same computations, and there is little reason to believe the algorithm would feel any different from the inside.