"While it is true that the individual person who is locked in the room does not understand the story, the fact is that he is merely part of the whole system, and the system does understand the story."

Searle's response: "Let the individual internalize all these elements of the system. He memorizes the rules ... and the data ... and he does all the calculations in his head. ... All the same, he understands nothing of Chinese ..."

(From "Minds, Brains, and Programs," but not included in Pojman excerpt.)