From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

by Daniel C. Dennett

Both Darwin and Turing claim to have discovered something truly unsettling to a human mind—competence without comprehension.

What Darwin and Turing did was envisage the most extreme version of this point: all the brilliance and comprehension in the world arises ultimately out of uncomprehending competences compounded over time into ever more competent—and hence comprehending—systems.

even at the highest levels of competence, comprehension is never absolute.