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Neither would I, I guess I'm more pointing out the dustinction between prediction accuracy and understanding.
fwiw, commutativity didn't really get specifically called out by mathematicians until they adopted some kind of symbolic representation (which happened at vastly different times in different places). without algebra, there's not much reason to spell it out, even if you happen to notice the pattern, and it's even harder to prove it. (actually... it's absurdly hard to prove even with it - see the Principia Mathematica...)
these algorithms are clearly not reasoning but this isn't an example. yes, it seems obvious and simple now but it short changes how huge of a shift the switch to symbolic reasoning is in the first place. and that's setting aside whether notions like "memory" and "attention" are things these algorithms can actually do (don't get me started on how obtuse the literature is on this point).