competence without comprehension

What Darwin and Turing had both discovered, in their different ways, was the existence of competence without comprehension. - Daniel C. Dennett on Turing's 100

The motto of modern education might be: "Comprehend in order to be competent." ... I suspect that this much-loved principle of education is one of the primary motivators of skepticism about both evolution and its cousin in Turing's world, artificial intelligence. The very idea that mindless mechanicity can generate human-level -- or divine level! -- competence strikes many as philistine, repugnant, an insult to our minds, and the mind of God.