Searle claims that inside his “Chinese room,” with his program and his symbols, he would not understand Chinese. So a computer with its program and symbols could not understand Chinese. But critics...

Searle claims that inside his “Chinese room,” with his program and his symbols, he would not understand Chinese. So a computer with its program and symbols could not understand Chinese. But critics say that the room as a whole (with Searle, program, and symbols inside it) does understand Chinese. In the same way, a computer as a whole could understand Chinese. Who do you think is right, Searle or his critics?