Dear Jose,
Thanks for reading my essay, which is definitely a 'physicalist' essay. One thing to think about in reviewing my exchange with Tim is how many of his arguments (essentially "it's binary") I respond to versus how many of my arguments he responds to.
I thank you for saying you will go through it leisurely before deciding. I can ask no more of anyone. Since I believe that 'non-locality' or 'no local causality' is today the most significant challenge to an intuitively comprehensible physicalism, I do believe it's worth the effort. The arguments are indeed subtle and the entire issue is very complex. In a nutshell:
Bell's theorem is mathematically correct, but his physics is oversimplified and his model does not represent the actual physics that goes on in the inhomogeneous field. He assumes the physics of a constant field, which will produce null results, and so leads to a contradiction. When one analyzes the physics in a non-constant field, one finds new physics, and no contradiction.
My approach is to explore Bell's conclusion that no local model can produce the QM correlation. I have presented a local model that does produce the QM correlations, unless Bell's constraints are imposed.
This would seem to call Bell's constraints into question, and so I have analyzed the reason why he might have imposed such constraints. My essay offers an explanation, based on his confusion of Dirac and Pauli eigenvalue equations, and assumptions of eigenvalue measurements. If this analysis is valid, then the rationale for entanglement is called into question. This issue should be decidable by experiment, the ideal end result of any such controversy.
Thanks again for your essay, and for your willingness to put some effort into a complex issue.
Edwin Eugene Klingman