Daniel Dennett on Darwin and Turing’s “strange inversion of reasoning”

The Atlantic “‘A Perfect and Beautiful Machine’: What Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Reveals About Artificial Intelligence”

I like this idea of “competence without comprehension”. I think that this could apply to a lot of our cultural practices as well as to the brilliance of evolved biological adaptations.

I also appreciate the use of the “sorta” rhetorical device to point out that there is no identifiable point at which “comprehension” is achieved.