> a series of short sentences that mimic the reasoning process a person might have when responding to a question
Worried about the choice of the word 'mimic' - which as usual seems to retain the usual distance from foundational considerations.
Edit: nonetheless, the results of "Chain of Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models" are staggering and do seem, at least in appearance, go towards the foundationals.
This is happening since a few months ago:
Wei et al (2022). Chain of Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903