An interesting point here. I published a column by a famous professor friend of mine who found that Tesla had described an AND gate in his writing. That wasn’t something he could build, and wasn’t even useful until Shannon invented digital logic in 1938, but we could look at it and see that he was on to something - when he was.
Would like to also point out Leonardo Devinci in this too. Yes he made some designs that worked using his level of technology, but some of them, such as the flying machines could not be made then, but now can and some have been made.
Uh, no, while other contraptions were found to be effective later, his flying designs were really ineffective. As pointed out here, they may had worked, if man possessed the same energy and rapidity of action as do those of birds in proportion to their respective weights.
http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Chanute/library/Prog_Wings_Nov1891.html
There is an interesting touring exhibition of working machines build from Leonardo’s plans. Including a drum machine. No flying machines, as he said, they wouldn’t have worked.
As another example, there are two working models of Babbage’s Difference Engine, and they are working on one of the Analytical Engine.
I thought one of them would have worked given a internal combustion engine, and was constructed and flew - perhaps not.
anyway
Thinking about what you have posted able being able to falsify the model. I believe that is what I have been doing with the current model, and that is helping come up with that alternate model.
In the current model it is just unrealistic and way too easy to dismiss anyone who disagrees with it as ‘mad’ (at which point he is discredited and not listened to) . And perhaps that is exactly what I am exploring, claims that others have dismissed. I believe also that I am seeing ‘evidence’ that they are not mad, but simply reacting normally to the circumstances that they are for some reason in.
So in this I find the current model unsatisfactory and am working on the alternate model that I have expressed.