Chinese Room Thought Experiment

If you take an english person (on their consent and treating them with all respect) and insert electrodes into their brain, one group after hearing-to-neural, another before neural-to-speech, you will not understand how it all works too. You hear the question and hear the response, but have no idea how it was produced. Is that different? I think it is not.

Now imagine that not words, but ideas appear in your consciousness. And you don’t have to verbalize them, only think abstractly. Do you really understand what it is about? Or is your brain “understanding” by picking associations and [de]verbalize them before/after processing as you were thaught? (language is not a built-in)

Why do people think that they understand themselves or something clearly, when there is a large mostly unknown area of psychology/psychiatry and thinking in general.

A lighter version of criticism may sound like this: is a cpu required to understand a program it is executing? If yes, why do programs work? If no, what’s the paradox then. Strong english AI emulates strong chinese AI algorithm and it all works without the former understanding the latter due to intellectual/knowledge limits. Maybe some strong enough english AI could understand chinese by simply figuring out everything from code, data, snapshots and spare time alone.