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I don't think I know of anyone who believes that everything is explicable in terms of causally things that have mass and exist as solid, liquid or gas, still less that everything *must be*. And I can't imagine how anything in Eliezer's original post suggests that he's insisting on any such limitation.
Neither can I see how this has anything to do with QM (except, I guess, that some versions of QM give us a universe with randomness in it as well as determinism), or with Feynman's comment about machinery. (The fundamental laws known at any time are *by definition* laws that no one has found any machinery behind. This was just as true of Newton's laws in 1700 as of QM in 2000.)