Ok. So...let me see if I have all of this down before I state my point:


1) If it can be known, it can be uploaded into your brain.

We see this about a half-dozen times in the first flick alone. Neo wants to know kung-fu? He knows kung-fu. Neo wants to fly a chopper? Done.


2) Whatever you know in the Matrix, you know outside of it.

If this wasn't true, Neo would have been wondering who the fuck the people picking him up in the ship were after he was freed because he wouldn't have known who Trinity and Morpheus were. His brain is his brain no matter which world he is in.
EDIT: In fact, the only thing in real life keeping him from whooping some ass is the fact that he can't defy gravity there and probably doesn't work out enough to do those moves.




So...what's to stop someone in Zion from putting every bit of science ever into their brains and using that knowledge to build a computer virus that frees the people and shuts down the robots? You're telling me a Zion full of encyclopedic super-geniuses couldn't have solved that shit without Neo?

Zion should've been free and dancing ages ago.