How Do I Know What I Know?

I'm not sure where knowledge goes or anything. I guess it's basically memory, but a little different, like i know how to type but I don't "remember" it. But I guess I can treat it as the same thing.

Nobody knows exactly where memory is stored in the brain. The brain doesn't have a "hard drive." In fact it seems that memory is stored all over the organ; perhaps memory is stored in the part of the brain that percieved it. A computer's memory is finite and knowable. Even on a huge hard drive you can quite easily count the ammount of data it contains to infinite accuracy. The brain is the opposite. We can't define a specific or discreet boundary for our memory, so in some ways it's boundless and infinite. We find there are many layers of our knowledge and thought. Some of our knowlege we are consciously aware of, but most of it is deep in our subconscious. An experience can bring out knowledge we didn't know we had, drudging it up from the bottom of the cool swamp of our subconscious.

Our knowledge  comes in to our brain through our senses, primarily. Reading, hearing people talk, watching things, or percieving things originally for ourselves. But, perhaps, there is an undercurrent between the cool pools of our subconsciouses, an underground resivour we can all connect to. There is some human knowledge that we all seem to be born with. Some kind of memory passed down from our ancestors, from the monkeys in the trees, from the first muddy fish that sloshed on to dry land. The boy in the road knows that stealing is wrong and he knows what other humans are and he knows that if he prays they will hear him. His father told him that but it seems like there's something in his head that was there when he was born, that's part of the swirling and vast consciousness he, like all of us, came out of.

Or not. Maybe we're all just seperate with none of this spiritual crap.