Comment by im3w1l

You are thinking on the wrong level. Of course we don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of the world encoded into our genome. It's like we have certain structures of the world hard coded, and they may use different learning algorithms.

We instinctively know that there are other intelligent beings, and we have the the machinery to model them. We are born with the capacity for language. It must still be learned, the specific words aren't hardcoded, but the concept of language is. We are born with the capacity to store and replay memories. The brain knows some aspects of how the world is supposed to look like visually, and if it doesn't it will try to correct that. People who used optics to see the world upside down have found that after a brief time their brain learned to flip the world right side up.