I'm not sure exactly where, but I remember in the past learning about such terms as "cell memory" which essentially means the coded instructions necessary for autonomous operation. In a sense, we are filled by baby web-weaving spiders which where born with all the necessary knowledge on how to go about their business.
Individually cells may not do much, but if we think at the animal scale with millions, billions, trillions of cells, things may start to shape up. Especially if we think of the cells in the animal's brain which were born from their mother and father DNA; a strand that has been specializing, shaping up and perfecting itself over the last millions of years. And today much more capable and producing bug-free and efficient coded instructions than in the past.
The question is thus... can "cell memory" at the grand scale of trillions of individuals be the source of Charllote babies knowledge?
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Another interesting proposal:
At the human scale, a web weaving spider is an impressive animal. However, the action is very mechanical and predictable. I shouldn't be very hard to code a robot to weave a web following the exact same pattern as real spiders. The instructions contained in such a program would probably never even come close to match a spider's single cell DNA storage capacity. Much less its whole brain.
