It sounds like you’re making the same mistake that people often make with the second part of the Chinese room argument where a real English-speaking human is fo

It sounds like you’re making the same mistake that people often make with the second part of the Chinese room argument where a real English-speaking human is following a bunch of instructions to manually compute the Chinese room algorithm. That human doesn’t understand Chinese, just like your mom doesn’t understand Unix systems or command line-interpreters. In both cases, the humans are just functioning as hardware executing a computer program.