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    It is not the case that Uffink and others have argued that the Tsirelson bound is not merely contingent but reflects deep structural features of Hilbert-space quantum mechanics tied to local commutativity.

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    • 1.The Tsirelson bound may reflect computational limitations of classical simulations rather than deep quantum structure itself.
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    • 2.Local commutativity is a postulate we impose; showing it entails Tsirelson bounds doesn't explain why nature obeys local commutativity fundamentally.
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    • 3.Non-local hidden variable theories can reproduce Tsirelson bounds without appealing to Hilbert-space structural features at all.
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    • 1.Local commutativity (spacelike separated observables commute) is fundamental to relativistic QFT and directly constrains correlation structures.
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    • 2.The Tsirelson bound emerges mathematically from operator algebra constraints in Hilbert space, not from ad-hoc assumptions about measurements.
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    • 3.No known alternative to Hilbert-space formalism preserves both locality and the empirical predictions that saturate Tsirelson bounds.
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