I can&#x27;t see your side of the chinese room. A sufficiently complex digital system can simulate any analog one; the human brain is an analogy system; therefore, a digital system could simulate the human brain; therefore, if a human brain is conscious, or can produce meaning, a digital program can do the same thing. The simulation might be probabilistic, it might be stochastic, but it&#x27;d still be a digital simulation. We could simulate it atom by atom with a computer the size of the sun if that&#x27;s what it&#x27;d take, but it could still be done. I don&#x27;t see how the specific &quot;hardware&quot; that the mind runs on, whether made of membranes or transistors, has anything to do with it, nor the level of abstraction.
How is there anything more to the discussion?