Hm why does adding information to memory sound monadic to you? I am not questioning you, but just curious. My knowledge of monads is limited. I would argue tha

Hm why does adding information to memory sound monadic to you? I am not questioning you, but just curious. My knowledge of monads is limited. I would argue that Searle's Chinese Room is posed in a way that presupposes what forms computation might take or the limits it has. Since this was posed decades ago (1980), it makes sense in his time. If Searle had begun teaching today (instead of 1969) and seen convolutional neural networks and recurrent neural networks deployed in massive data centers, Watson win Jeopardy!, neural Turing machines, or a worm's brain emulated and embodied in a small robot, I doubt he would have posed his Chinese Room the same way. Maybe he would not have posed it at all, being convinced in light of those achievements.