Comment by _heimdall

Is that something we can acknowledge without at least somewhat understanding how that works?

It sure seems like we have a lot of inherent knowledge, but by the book we're little more than the product of an instruction set that is our DNA and there's no explanation that includes inherited knowledge in that DNA.

I think the harder thing we need to acknowledge is that we understand much less than we think we know. Concepts like inherent, or collective, knowledge would all roll down hill from that.