What is a "reasoning principle" and how might it be "encoded"? Also are we really calling it "denial" now? Because it's a little funny to make the move of simp

What is a "reasoning principle" and how might it be "encoded"? Also are we really calling it "denial" now? Because it's a little funny to make the move of simply psychologizing away the criticism, when your actual AI argument, presumably, is that inner consciousness/rationality is black boxes all the way down anyway. Like, how can you presume to look inside the mind of your critic so confidently, to assert they are in denial, but in the same breath say that such a thing is in principal impossible? Don't you think it maybe takes away the force of your argument? Or at least goes against its spirit?