The point is that the human in the Chinese room is just the hardware, and no one really thinks that any computer hardware on its own understands Chinese. It wou

The point is that the human in the Chinese room is just the hardware, and no one really thinks that any computer hardware on its own understands Chinese. It would obviously be the entire computational system that understands Chinese. The only reason this can even appear to be confusing is that we often casually use "computer" to refer both to an entire computational system (your "implementation of a function") as well as a physical piece of hardware (like the box on the floor with a Dell sticker on it).