Dear NAI Journal Editors, We wish to submit an original research article entitled “Algorithmic ersatz for VSA: Macroscopic simulation of Vector Symbolic Architecture” for consideration by NAI. We confirm that this work is original and has not been published elsewhere, nor is it currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. In this paper, we develop a macroscopic model of the usual Vector Symbolic Architecture (VSA), which is a well-established biologically plausible neurosymbolic approach. It thus seems appropriate for publication because it provides a tool allowing to anchoring of symbolic specifications and operations in a mesoscopic distributed numeric implementation. This may be significant because it allows us to perform simulations at a much higher scale than if being obliged to calculate a a mesoscopic or microscopic scale, as done up to now for VSA. If this contribution is relevant for NAI, a second paper will be submitted showing applications regarding symbolic reasoning. We have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Thank you for your consideration of this manuscript. Sincerely,