I think that the gist of what you're saying is that, aside from spirit, which we are purposely leaving out of the discussion for the time being, we are the totality of our experiences, what we know is informed by our experience, and how we experience something (including our own actions)will also be informed by our experience. And our experience is primarily but not exclusively the sum of our sense perceptions.

Is that anywhere near what you were getting at? I know I'm paraphrasing and prolly messin up badly, but the problem with a Q/A format is that if each question gets answered in a vacuum it's hard to synthesize the answers.

Peace.