> unless someone--a human--can verify and understand it, it doesn't count.
One counter-point: Humans have not figured out how general anesthesia works, but we use it every day to great effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_general_anaestheti...
Seems a bit nitpicky, we certainly understand how to use it with great effect, we just don't understand the biochemical mechanism.
Only because we understand everything _except_ how it works.