First, I would like to identify a meaning of the word experience that is fairly precise.

Sometimes the word is used in a very vague sense.

So Richard Swinburne, for example, in his discussion of religious experience, defines experience simply as a conscious mental event.

I suppose that you could call having knowledge or maybe gaining knowledge of something a conscious mental event, so that if you could have any knowledge of God, under that definition, it would constitute an experience of God.

I think that notion of experience too vague for our purposes, too vague to identify something distinctive and interesting.

Uh, on the other hand, there is another meaning of experience that is almost too precise, namely what could be called the technical sense of experience, uh, used in the beginning of Aristotle's metaphysics, uh, his word being empeiria, where it's one of the stages rising from sense experience all the way to wisdom, uh, and is something arising from several memories of the same thing.