I posted a link to the original context.

I don't know whether you are saying that I have taken it out of context or a more general statement of how other people have interpreted the quote.

To me it is quite clear -- the question of whether machines can reason is just as meaningful as the question as to whether submarines can swim, which is to say not at all meaningful. Can a submarine accomplish by other means what a fish accomplishes by swimming? If so, then what are we talking about?

Can an LLM accomplish by other means what a human accomplishes by "reasoning"? If so, then what are we talking about?