The sleight-of-hand in the Chinese room is that Searle asks us whether the man in the room understands Chinese. Of course not. This is like asking whether my CP

The sleight-of-hand in the Chinese room is that Searle asks us whether the man in the room understands Chinese. Of course not. This is like asking whether my CPU knows how to decode h264. The real question is whether the embodied process instantiated by the actions of the man, along with the other involved components in the room, understands Chinese. But the argument doesn't touch this claim.