Is the Anti-Human View the God View?

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Don't take the phrase God view too literally is what I would say. There's plenty of atheists who are anti-humans. In Hamiltonian mechanics, you're allowed to write down any Hamiltonian you want and position momentum are perfectly symmetric. You can write down any function of X and P or any function of P and X just as well. Those could be Hamiltonians. They're kind of specific.

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