Programming code tells the computer to do something, but what makes the code actually mean anything to the computer?

Question

Programming code tells the computer to do something, but what makes the code actually mean anything to the computer?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Machine doesn’t “understand” anything. It just ends up being a series of circuits, gates and switches that go on and off in whatever series we want. And we in turn create “meaningful” states to put the machine in. As short of an answer I can think of.