[elcomet]

How can you know?

[measurablefunc]

By thinking about what a computer is actually doing & realizing that attributing thought to an arthmetic gadget leads to all sorts of nonsensical consequences like an arrangement of dominoes & their cascade being a thought. The metaphysics of thinking computers is incoherent & if you study computability theory you'll reach the same conclusion.

[elcomet]

I'd say that thoughts and reasoning are two different things, you're moving the goalpost.

But what makes the computer hardware fundamentally incompatible with thinking? Compared to a brain