If you put an intelligent actor in the room with no book and task it with coming up with the book the actor might very well pull that stunt off. However in order for the technician to be relevantly analogous to a computer he can not employ original ingeniuty. Reference to the symbol replacement table must be adequate reference to uniquely determine how the program will run. You can not consult “extra source code”. Thus you need the book on how to write books. It might be illustrative to think how the tallies on what punishments have been gotten appear on cards instructed to be written on the book. This meta-book would be nice in that it would be the same book for entering the chinese room or the german room (or really any room). However “slavish procedures” can not relevantly be outrun. You could/would follow the book “slavishly and mindlessly”
If you put an intelligent actor in the room with no book and task it with coming up with the book the actor might very well pull that stunt off. However in order for the technician to be relevantly analogous to a computer he can not employ original ingeniuty. Reference to the symbol replacement table must be adequate reference to uniquely determine how the program will run. You can not consult “extra source code”. Thus you need the book on how to write books. It might be illustrative to think how the tallies on what punishments have been gotten appear on cards instructed to be written on the book. This meta-book would be nice in that it would be the same book for entering the chinese room or the german room (or really any room). However “slavish procedures” can not relevantly be outrun. You could/would follow the book “slavishly and mindlessly”