[deadfoxygrandpa]

a game has very limited physics. like the buttons you press are pre-tuned to perform certain actions and you arent dealing with continuous nearly infinite possibilities with large ranges of motion, pressure, speed etc. like think about how difficult the game QWOP is because you mostly just have visual feedback

[whatever1]

I beg to disagree. I got introduced to brand new (to me) physics of flying airplanes by MS flight simulator. None of the rules I knew in real life applied (gravity matters only sometimes, height can be traded for speed etc). Yet learned how to fly.

And when I took real classes in a real Cessna, this experience was transferable (aka the flying model I had in my brain was very similar to the one I experienced with my full body in the cockpit).