Reasoning is a process of apprehending facts about objects and inferring how they will relate with other facts. It has nothing to with statistical distributions

Reasoning is a process of apprehending facts about objects and inferring how they will relate with other facts. It has nothing to with statistical distributions of words, except in the special case where that distribution has been constructed by humans in a way that reflects their knowledge and inference of those facts. If you feed an LLM garbage, it will happily give you garbage. It doesn't know what garbage is and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.