The footnote on page 122 leaves room for some parts of the cell to be amenable to mechanistic explanations, but that since large parts of the cell aren't, it's

The footnote on page 122 leaves room for some parts of the cell to be amenable to mechanistic explanations, but that since large parts of the cell aren't, it's insufficient to explain what's going on overall: > this conclusion does not imply that every entity or process within the cell is being (or needs to be) reconceptualized. To be clear, the thesis I have sought to defend is not that all organelles exist as irreversible steady states, that every protein complex is a pleomorphic ensemble, and so on. It is rather that a very large number of cellular and molecular phenomena that were traditionally interpreted in terms that support the MCC are now being explained in terms that directly oppose it.