Knowledge includes insight into the why part of the mechanism - why does the protein behave in this way? This can lead to generalizations which go beyond answer

Knowledge includes insight into the why part of the mechanism - why does the protein behave in this way? This can lead to generalizations which go beyond answering different questions of the same sort (such as "what about this protein then") to questions of a different form that have answers underpinned by the mechanism. For example, "how does that structure evolve over time?" this is closely related to the ability to make analogies using the knowledge - "if proteins react in that way within their own molecule then when they meet another molecule they should react this way". Also the knowledge only becomes knowledge when it's in the framework that "can know" which is to say that the thing using it can handle different questions and can decide to create an analogy using other knowledge. For Alphafold2 that framework is Deepmind, but of course I don't know enough to know if they and it can know things about proteins in the way I described or if they "just" have a compressed form of the solution space. I suspect the latter.