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>>15073410
I don't think QM can be cleanly presented from intuitive empirical first principles like classical mechanics, special relativity, general relativity, thermodynamics, electrodynamics or fluid dynamics (basically every other subject in physics which doesn't depend on QM or QFT).
It's all "the measurable values are the spectrum of a self-adjoint operator which we obtain by quantization, and we know this works because a couple computations like the hydrogen series work."