but it's unpopular because it grates so much with our intuitions
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Bohm, the lead proponent of hidden variables, is openly religious
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and directly compares the hidden factor to God/fate/karma
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just like with the actual God which direction Occam's razor cuts becomes a faith issue
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a physics professor at my school was in the "Shut up and calculate" school
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rejecting, well, the idea of models - the "reality" of the quantum world is unknowable
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we know only that our world exists and quantum stuff is just experimental effects within it
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and in one sense that's the answer that's most preserving of our intuitions
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in another sense it's by far the most solipsistic or obscurantist or whatever POV
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like resolving Galileo's battle with the Church by saying "How do we even know the sky is real"
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"For practical purposes we know day and night happen but whether the Sun is a physical thing or not? Meh
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