[cromwellian]

The systems response is pretty much the right answer. You can put yourself at any level of reductionism of a complex system and ask how in the hell the system accomplishes anything. If you imagine yourself running a simulation of physics on paper for the universe, you may ask yourself, how does this simulation create jellyfish.

I think people fall for Searle's argument the same way people fall for creationist arguments that make evolution seem absurd. Complex systems that evolve over long periods of time have enormous logical depth complexity and exhibit emergent properties that really can't be computed analytically, but only but running the simulation, and observing macroscopic patterns.

If I run a cellular automaton that computes the sound wave frequencies of a symphony playing one of Mozart's compositions, and it takes trillions of steps before even the first second of sound is output, you can rightly ask, at any state, how is this thing creating music?