Debat Simulasi 2025: Teori Informasi Vopson Bertemu Batas Komputasi Vazza

The philosophical and scientific debate surrounding the simulation hypothesis, widely popularized by the 1999 film *The Matrix*, has intensified in 2025. The core of this discussion centers on new arguments supporting the concept through the lens of information theory, directly confronting rebuttals based on computational impossibility. This discourse involves research activities spanning from 2003 through early 2025, with a sharp focus on significant research developments in 2022 and 2023.

A primary theoretical initiative stems from physicist Melvin Vopson, who proposed the Second Law of Infodynamics, a new framework challenging conventional thermodynamic intuition. This law, introduced by Vopson alongside Serban Lepadatu in 2022, posits that the information entropy of a system containing informational states must remain constant or decrease over time, directly opposing the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that physical entropy tends to increase. Vopson has further suggested that gravity may be an emergent effect of information optimization, a radical interpretation linking fundamental physics with data processing.

Conversely, Astrophysicist Franco Vazza of the University of Bologna, Italy, presented calculations that quantitatively challenge the feasibility of simulating the universe. Vazza concluded that attempting to simulate the universe down to the Planck scale would necessitate energy substantially exceeding the total energy contained within the universe itself. This criticism presents a significant, measurable challenge, although proponents of Vopson’s work may dispute the assumptions underlying such cost estimations. Vazza’s prior research has also focused on measuring the information content of simulated cosmic structures, indicating an established interest in computational limits within cosmology.

The historical backdrop of this debate is reinforced by a 2003 probabilistic argument from Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom. Bostrom’s argument suggests that at least one of three propositions must be true: the extinction of civilizations before reaching a post-human stage, the impossibility of post-human civilizations running a significant number of evolutionary simulations, or the fact that we are almost certainly living in a simulation. Public figures, such as Elon Musk, have occasionally supported this notion, while other researchers, like John Barrow in 2007, have suggested that changes in natural constants could indicate computational errors within a simulation.

Vopson’s investigation into the Second Law of Infodynamics has been applied to various systems, including digital data storage and biological RNA genomes, showing consistency with the law’s predictions. For instance, experiments on magnetic thin films storing the word 'INFORMATION' in binary demonstrated data degradation and erasure after a number of cycles, consistent with a decrease in information entropy. Furthermore, third-party thermocontextual analyses of the law suggest that external agents strive to increase their access to exergy by narrowing their informational gap, a principle considered key to the origin of life. This investigation bridges deep philosophical questions with cutting-edge physics and information theory, maintaining relevance in the contemporary scientific landscape.