For the most part, I agree with what's being said. But we do need the thought experiments, no matter how incompatible they may be to other thoughts and ideas, before one gets to the point someone can design experiments that prove or disprove the ideas we have about how things work.
We went through this with the "humors" for example. Eventually that theory was found to be wrong. We discovered the actual causes of various diseases by experimenting with, and disproving the ideas behind imbalanced humors. The experiments continually uncovered little bits of the truth until arcane mystery became today's mundane knowledge.
At some point in time, we'll look at a whole lot of today's quantum computing concepts and think the scientists involved must have been crazy. Hindsight is 20/20, allowing us to clearly see the folly where it was not evident before.
We went through this with the "humors" for example. Eventually that theory was found to be wrong. We discovered the actual causes of various diseases by experimenting with, and disproving the ideas behind imbalanced humors. The experiments continually uncovered little bits of the truth until arcane mystery became today's mundane knowledge.
At some point in time, we'll look at a whole lot of today's quantum computing concepts and think the scientists involved must have been crazy. Hindsight is 20/20, allowing us to clearly see the folly where it was not evident before.