There are a growing contingent of reputable scientists that subscribe to the possibility that we are living in a simulation, including Elon Musk and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Also, Vopson did not "discover" "Infodynamics." The research field of information dynamics (infodynamics) has conceptually been around since the 40s. The idea that information has energy associated with it and thus the thermodynamic principals of entropy apply goes back to the 60s. Numerous papers have been published in the 80s and 90s about biological information dynamics, entropy, thermodynamics of ecological succession and evolution and mathematical modeling of life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics.