[earnestinger]

Hypothetically.

Imagine a simple, but humongous hash table, that maps every possible prompt of 20000 letters to the most appropriate answer in current time.

(How? Let’s say outsourcing to east asia or aliens…)

Would you say such mechanism is doing reasoning?

[farts_mckensy]

Let's outsource it to your mothers house instead.

[earnestinger]

Let’s do that. Still, this hash table, would be doing reasoning?

[farts_mckensy]

The premise of your question is incredibly dumb