Comment by nsingh2

You are making two different claims, and then treating them as one.

1. Mimicking a process may not prove that the system is truly preforming the same process. In this case, a "reasoning" process.

2. A system that simulates a process cannot, by definition, be doing the process.

The first claim can be defended, but the second doesn't follow from the first.

Calling it a "simulation" is assuming the conclusion. What makes it a simulation rather than some implementation of reasoning on a different substrate? I.e. transistors rather than neurons.