Submitted:
13 August 2026
Posted:
14 August 2026
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Abstract
We propose least surprisal as an inferential principle for recovering physical laws. Just as least action selects a history given a Lagrangian, accumulated surprisal selects the Lagrangian given a displacement from a reference.
Keywords:
foundations of physics
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