The argument is actually more about insight. You can't have insights about things you don't already have in your head. Insight in this context is noticing some new relationship between two facts.
There was a slang term "refrigerator thoughts" that described someone staring into the refrigerator while thinking of a show plot and realizing there is a plot hole, a disturbing implication, etc. In any case, that's an example of insight. Hopefully we have these spontaneous realizations about less trivial things as well.
The more stuff you've got in your head, the more insights you'll have, which drive more questions whose investigations puts yet more stuff in your head.
I don't think you can split it. The critical piece is actually getting information into your head in the first place.
There was a slang term "refrigerator thoughts" that described someone staring into the refrigerator while thinking of a show plot and realizing there is a plot hole, a disturbing implication, etc. In any case, that's an example of insight. Hopefully we have these spontaneous realizations about less trivial things as well.
The more stuff you've got in your head, the more insights you'll have, which drive more questions whose investigations puts yet more stuff in your head.
I don't think you can split it. The critical piece is actually getting information into your head in the first place.