It’s not reasoning, it retrieval of a pattern, and that pattern may contain reasoning.
The prompt engineering is the real reasoning, provided by the human.
The prompt engineering is the real reasoning, provided by the human.
My point is computers already follow algorithms, and algorithms contain reasoning; but the computers are not reasoning themselves. At least, not yet!
I think a "granule" of "reasoning" happens at each inference, and you think there is no reasoning in a single inference. To discuss it further would be a game of whose definition of any given word is correct.