The Chinese Room argument is fairly transparently circular; if you assume understanding involves something more than applying a sufficiently complex set of deterministic rules, then a pure system of deterministic rules cannot ever achieve understanding.
Of course if you accept the required premise of the argument, you must accept that either, one, we don't live in a universe that is a pure system of deterministic rules, or, two, nothing in the universe can have true understanding.
The Chinese Room argument, scientific materialism, or the existence of true understanding—you can have at most two of those in a consistent view of the universe.
Of course if you accept the required premise of the argument, you must accept that either, one, we don't live in a universe that is a pure system of deterministic rules, or, two, nothing in the universe can have true understanding.
The Chinese Room argument, scientific materialism, or the existence of true understanding—you can have at most two of those in a consistent view of the universe.