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A searcher for explanations wields a double-edged sword. One of the most commonly-leveled criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology is that it makes it easy to construct plausible explanations. With no way to quantitatively distinguish the plausibility of several different explanations that haven't been falsified by experimentation, what do you do?
How about when you're building the lithography for a new CPU at Intel, and you don't know whether the explanation for quantum tunneling is multiple worlds, decoherence, pilot waves, or any number of other things? Do you use the equations that have always worked before, or wait until there's an explanation for why they work?
You criticize them to find flaws.
Of course, we do know that quantum phenomena are the result of previously fungible multiversal objects becoming fungible again. But assuming you didn't. Then you would use an explanation of what to do in the absence of a satisfactory explanation of the phenomena in question. We always act on such meta-theories.