Searle is an analytical philosopher and they have a tendency to do circular reasoning based on simplified premises because of their reliance on clarity in language.<p>There are in my view exceptions but mostly analytical philosophy is relying too much on clear definition of language rather than investigating the premise of the defintion and the accept that it&#x27;s always a fuzzy line.<p>This often lead them down paths that are rational from the point of their premise but with a simplified premise. (The man in the room isn&#x27;t conscious of Chinese therefore...).<p>Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyrbend are welcome exceptions although Lakatos and Feyrbend perhaps went too far.<p>There are many good and useful things about analytical philosophy the chinese room argument is just and example of what isn&#x27;t so good about it.<p>The real answer to the chinese room argument simply is. We don&#x27;t know. But this to most analytical philosophers is heresy . Their reliance on language to provide us with truth is too strong.