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The foregoing is an example of what William James called the philosophy of "nothing but." Its practitioners can be counted upon to reduce any phenomenon, however mysterious, to: "O, that is nothing but (blah blah, quack quack)."
Closer to home, Gell-Mann has recently opined that Bohr & Heisenberg "brainwashed" a generation of physicists into thinking QM was complete.
"The overcoming of naive realism has been relatively simple. In his introduction to his volume, An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Russell has characterized this process in a marvellously pregnant fashion:
'We all start from 'naive realism,' i.e., the doctrine that things are what they seem. We think that grass is green, that stones are hard, and... (read more)
"...don't tell me what it doesn't address until you actually read it!"
Sorry, but I've heard it all before and remain unimpressed.
"Decoherence," e.g., is often cited as though it's established fact -- and never mind that it might more aptly be called "incoherence."
On the whole, it resembles a steaming pile of what "everybody knows."