It’s been a busy day in my mind. A busy and frustrating day.
I have been trying to figure out if Searles reasoning, through his thought experiment The Chinese Room leads to the question if we (in comparison to machines) at all, can understand. Understand, as one of many cognitive states. And also if his reasoning leads to some sort of Substance Dualism. (A position Searle himself would not like to be found in).

Naturally I had no answers. No. Nothing. Really frustrating. I sat, hovering over the computer, thinking and thinking. Trying ideas, scrapping ideas, trying new ones. (Scrapping them aswell.)

In the end. I sent in an answer. Sure Searle would eat me up if he could read it.
Fortunately for me he can’t. It’s in Swedish.