  In his recent book Bananaworld. Quantum mechanics for primates, Jeff Bub
revives and provides a mature version of his influential information theoretic
interpretation of Quantum Theory (QT). In this paper, I test Bub s conjecture
that QT should be interpreted as a theory about information, by examining
whether his information theoretic interpretation has the resources to explain
(or explain away) quantum conundrums. The discussion of Bub s theses will also
serve to investigate, more in general, whether other approaches succeed in
defending the claim that QT is about quantum information. First of all, I argue
that Bub s interpretation of QT as a principle theory fails to fully explain
quantum nonlocality. Secondly, I argue that a constructive interpretation,
where the quantum state is interpreted ontically as information, also fails at
providing a full explanation of quantum correlations. Finally, while epistemic
interpretations might succeed in this respect, I argue that such a success
comes at the price of rejecting some in between the most basic scientific
standards of physical theories.
