I'm pretty sure this is not going to help "ordinary" people. Unless they already think like you and me.

When I was a kid, I wanted to know how all the black boxes worked -- one of my greatest days was when my father explained the internal combustion engine well enough that cars no longer seemed like magic.

Later I noticed that many people -- especially when talking about electronics -- would ask "How does it work?", when they actually meant "How do you use it?" I thought this was just a quirk of the Australian dialect, but as I gained more experience with people, I realised it was really an aspect of human thought.

To most people, knowing "how it works" is no more than being familiar enough with the magic spells that you can use them with confidence.