Is There Such a Thing as Experience?

Mala branch seems to powerfully come from the point of view that the very intelligibility of experience at all is coming from the infinite towards the finite. To me, it raises the whole problem of, well, what the hell do you mean by experience? Where does the data come from? And is there such a thing as data that inform the knowledge that you have? This gets to the mind, body connection, and what kind of connection it is, and how it's inform or getting informed.