> Suppose the world is super-deterministic, with not just inanimate nature running on behind-the-scenes clockwork, but with our behavior, including our belief that we are free to choose to do one experiment rather than another, absolutely predetermined, including the "decision" by the experimenter to carry out one set of measurements rather than another, the difficulty disappears.

You see, I think Bell is kind of obfuscating here: this is just normal determinism and it seems to me like Lagrange would have been perfectly fine with this. Causality only, even for the atoms that happen to reside in a human brain.

Edit: what do you mean with your last paragraph? Because I interpret it like this: the belief that interferes is that we have free will and can choose and basically change the past (counterfactuals). But I have a hunch that you mean it like: QM is weird, be careful.