I believe what is missed here is that the brain assimilate things outside of it (not in the physical sense of course). Use a hammer for some time and the brain start to dedicate some networks to simulate the hammer internally and to integrate the hammer as parte of your body. The brain starts using the hammer in the same way it uses your hand. It becomes part of what the higher level processes use to read from and to manifest into the world.

Nothing new here, this is called tool embodiment. A little time after assimilation, you stop consciously thinking about the tool. You are the hammer, the hammer is you.

So what is being missed here is that the brain operates on, well, mental constructs. Ideas and ways of thinking. But those are not the world or the brain, those are tools.

The higher level processes into your mind use ways of thinking the same way it uses the body. Its unconscious (because it has been doing this for enough time) and automatic. The brain just gets guided by the tools. It wants to hammer that nail.

So, what does it have to do with crossing the street and not being able to transmit this knowledge?

You can’t transmit the incorporation. You can describe how to do things, how to think about things, but you can’t reconnect other people’s neurons to establish a way of thinking or a tool as part of the brain image of the self. Yet.

You can’t teach a baby how to embody his spine. You can’t teach someone how to become his thoughts. But you can’t certainly guide then on the use and this usage will build the neural networks. Once established, they’ll get it.