Here's the relevant bit, with a biiiiig leap at the end:
"Symmetry principles play an important role with respect to the laws of nature, but until now there has been little explanation as to why that could be. My findings demonstrate that high symmetry corresponds to the lowest information entropy state, potentially explaining nature's inclination towards it.
"This approach, where excess information is removed, resembles the process of a computer deleting or compressing waste code to save storage space and optimize power consumption. And as a result supports the idea that we're living in a simulation."
Global symmetries like translation or rotation are simple and follow from the isoprophy of space: it's basically the same everywhere.
No symmetry is much harder to explain: there'd have to a casual event history to explain why i.e. where's all the anti-matter, a real example? How come energy is conserved there not here (which never happens for all intents and purposes)
In my read Vopson tries to make is sound more mystical than it is.
Also let's not confuse the description of the thing (the menu if you will) with the thing (the meal). An algorithmic compression like take on physics is an grand abstraction.
"Symmetry principles play an important role with respect to the laws of nature, but until now there has been little explanation as to why that could be. My findings demonstrate that high symmetry corresponds to the lowest information entropy state, potentially explaining nature's inclination towards it.
"This approach, where excess information is removed, resembles the process of a computer deleting or compressing waste code to save storage space and optimize power consumption. And as a result supports the idea that we're living in a simulation."