You may not like the statement and think it ridiculous, but I have mathematics on my side, which is what matters, not a judgement call on the qualitative features of the model and whether it pleases sensibilities.

Your example is bad because musicians != music and works perfectly when I sub music for "musician":

"Because an iPhone plays music it must have music inside it because it sounds just like music" which is correct.

In what specific way it has music in it is totally irrelevant from your perspective because the answer is true and the music is identical whether its played live on on a speaker

You said my statement was ridiculous and so I welcome you to falsify it. In what way are the AI agent and the 'real' one different from my perspective?

This is a mathematical problem and a physics problem: any two systems which can be modeled using identical math are functionally identical.