 Now, what is the argument based on this thought-experiment? Even if you’ve never heard of CRA before, you doubtless can see the basic idea: that Searle (in the box) is supposed to be everything a computer can be, and because he doesn’t understand Chinese, no computer could have such understanding. Searle is mindlessly moving squiggle-squoggles around, and (according to the argument) that’s all computers do,  fundamentally.[39]