Commenting so I find out later whether to take this seriously.
From the citations, many of which are broken links, we find links to Vopson’s key papers on which this article is built:
Vopson, M. M. (2021). The second law of information thermodynamics. AIP Advances, 11(8), 085008. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0056955
Vopson, M. M. (2023). The second law of infodynamics and its implications for the simulated universe hypothesis. AIP Advances, 13(10), 100301. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0105241
The first one isn’t about “information thermodynamics” at all, it’s entitled A monolithic linear motion platform driven by a piezoelectric and fluidic pressure-fed dual mechanism
And the second one is rather more prosaic than the article implies, and is actually entitled Reduction of bolt product defects at PT. GIP using Six Sigma method
I begin to suspect that it’s an elaborate hoax, possibly AI generated.
Thank you!
It seems to me to be more at the philosophy end of the spectrum than science. Extract from later on:
TANTALIZING CLUES BEYOND THE VEIL
Reports from visionary plants like ayahuasca and DMT describe encountering seemingly autonomous alternate realities inhabited by discarnate entities and dimensions (Luke, 2011). Users vividly perceive realities dissolving into underlying geometric grids flickering with cosmological symbols and machine elves, as though witnessing reality’s informational matrix. Psychedelic researchers speculate such visions reveal the program-like underside of consciousness itself (Hoffman, 2019).
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.” - Joseph Campbell, mythologist
The uncanny parallels between trippers’ subjective experiences and notions of simulation theory are striking. Potential clues also arise in near-death experiences where people report transitional states surrounded by complex fractal patterns and life reviews mimicking digital recreation (Alexander, 2012). Might mystical and visionary states reveal glimpses of nature’s hidden informational architecture? While anecdotal, subjective reports remain intriguingly consistent with Vopson’s information-based paradigm.
Transcending Materialism: Vopson’s Law and Bridging Science with Spirituality
Dr. Vopson’s proposed law of information dynamics has profound implications extending beyond its radical scientific interpretations. His findings resonate strongly with perennial spiritual intuitions and reported insights from mystical states that reality is informationally generated. This section explores potential bridges between information physics and nonordinary states revealing nature’s deeper workings.
Vopson might well be doing science, but I think this article is definitely doing philosophy.
Vopson’s second law is worth exploring. Pretty fascinating.
Many of the references are 404, and the key papers according to the article are by completely different authors than claimed with different titles than claimed, and nothing to do with “information thermodynamics”. I suspect that this is AI generated nonsense.
