Knowledge cannot be passed on via your DNA to our descendants (obviously), so any innate knowledge about the world found in our brains must have been found through natural evolution. But...
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3) there just isn't a lot of storage space in the part of your DNA that's related to your brain; it's a few megabytes, so you couldn't store much in terms of pre-trained connectome
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A pre-trained connectome developed by evolution is how insects work, but not humans; that approach is extremely behavior-centric and pretty limited in what sort of knowledge it can produce. The innate part of human cognition is mostly about how to learn -- not knowledge itself.
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Am I reading too far into your statement in thinking that the connectome of intelligence is captured in the society of knowledge, not in the innate parts of the brain.
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Yes, our knowledge, as well as huge swathes of our intelligence itself (in particular most of what makes us special as humans compared to animals) are externalized in our civilization. It's not about individual brains, it's about the collective, past and present
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Insects learn quite a bit. Bees are a particularly prominent example but certainly not unique.
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Do you know others? The only standout examples I know are Bees and jumping spiders--though not insects but--also tiny super low power (watts).
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Would you be interested in reading a high level of abstraction (philosophical) 30 pages article on the a priori in human knowledge?
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where do instincts come from? are you inferring that the process of learning is anthropocentric? lastly, without absolving some latent instinct in humans, is our learning and systems of knowledge not informed by that instinct at an angle outside of consciousness?
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I agree with this, but as someone who is not in the field to understand this, If there was a way for humans to pass info biologically to come "preprogrammed with ___ knowledge at birth" , what would that potentially look like?
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My wishlist - for humanity, for me - is to create a brain/computer link with which to download knowledge, information as needed. Not experience - that's learned + subjective. Just info/knowledge. I'll die happy if that happens in my lifetime.
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I would argue that most behaviors in infancy especially in newborns are facilitated by a pre-trained connectome since the parts of the brain that are developed are those in charge of vital functions as opposed to cognitive tasks. (Little variance in structure connectivity)
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However, as you point out, our cognition is heavily dependent on our ability to learn [using already developed structures and the immense amount of (essentially training) data the brain encounters during the development of the neocortex. (High variance in structure connectivity)]
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