The Importance of Full Experiments

I think in this sense it's typical thought experiments. They actually make things very vivid but do they actually ever prove anything? I don't think this proves anything because for example people who would say a very very sophisticated digital computer could think are obviously making some kind of claim that at a sufficient degree of complexity meaning emerges as an emergent property. So I think full experiments can be a bit misleading because sometimes the intuitions they pull out of you are so striking and so strong you can think you've been given a decisive argument. There's not a single example of a thought experiment which in itself is a decisive argument for anything.