Have you ever tried to explain the difference between correlation and causation to someone who didn’t understand it?
Understanding a high-level description of an abstract concept is different from having more low-level cognitive machinery that can apply the concept intuitively; you can have one without having the other (this goes in both directions). One classic example is that if you catch a flying ball with your hand, your brain needs to do something like solving a set of differential equations in order to predict the path of the ball… but this doesn’t imply that the people who were good at catching balls would be any good with solving explicit sets of differential equations. (Nor that people who were good at math would be any good at catching balls, for that matter.)
Understanding a high-level description of an abstract concept is different from having more low-level cognitive machinery that can apply the concept intuitively; you can have one without having the other (this goes in both directions). One classic example is that if you catch a flying ball with your hand, your brain needs to do something like solving a set of differential equations in order to predict the path of the ball… but this doesn’t imply that the people who were good at catching balls would be any good with solving explicit sets of differential equations. (Nor that people who were good at math would be any good at catching balls, for that matter.)