The knowledge of cycling and the means of acquiring it are logically distinguishable but not empirically separable.
The Boltzman brain that floats around space can have all the neurons wired in a way so that it has knowledge of cycling but it didn’t went through the process of cycling.
The claim that going through the process of cycling is the only way to acquire the neurological patterns that represent the experience of cycling is wrong.
Additionally, different people who learn to cycle have quite different experiences of cycling and it’s not clear that those share a common core that can’t be learned without engaging in cycling.
To add another test case:
Do you think a person who remembers being sexually molested as a child because of the suggestions of a therapist has an “experience of sexual molestation”?
The only problem is these examples render the very idea of experience superfluous.
And your test case about molestation is such a morally charged issue that I would not hazard logic chopping on it yet. (Hint: if the victim has some way of making sense of the event, it is an experience. If the victim has not emerged from the shock of it, then it is a trauma, a raw event, and not an experience).
The Boltzman brain that floats around space can have all the neurons wired in a way so that it has knowledge of cycling but it didn’t went through the process of cycling.
The claim that going through the process of cycling is the only way to acquire the neurological patterns that represent the experience of cycling is wrong.
Additionally, different people who learn to cycle have quite different experiences of cycling and it’s not clear that those share a common core that can’t be learned without engaging in cycling.
To add another test case:
Do you think a person who remembers being sexually molested as a child because of the suggestions of a therapist has an “experience of sexual molestation”?
The only problem is these examples render the very idea of experience superfluous.
And your test case about molestation is such a morally charged issue that I would not hazard logic chopping on it yet. (Hint: if the victim has some way of making sense of the event, it is an experience. If the victim has not emerged from the shock of it, then it is a trauma, a raw event, and not an experience).