>Knee jerk dismissing the evidence in front of your eyes because you find it unbelievable that we can achieve true reasoning via scaled matrix multiplication is understandable, but also betrays a lack of imagination and flexibility of thought.

You go ahead with your imagination. To us unimaginative folks, it betrays a lack of understanding of how LLMs actually work and shows that a lot of people still cannot grasp that it’s actually an extremely elaborate illusion of thinking.