I used to amuse myself thinking up attacks against the Chinese room. One was to have an actual Chinese professor feed answers into the room but force the conclusion that there was no intelligence. Another was to simplify the Chinese room experiment to apply to a Turing machine instead, requiring a very large lookup table which would surely give the game away.

I think ultimately I decided the Chinese room experiment was actually flawed and didn't reveal what it purported to reveal. From a neurophysiological viewpoint: The chinese room is very much the cartesian theater, and Searle places himself as the little man watching the screen. Since the cartesian theater does not exist, he's never going to see a movie.

I might be missing a more subtle point of Searle's though; maybe the chinese room experiment should be read differently?