The Least Surprising Theory: An Information-Theoretic Approach to the Unification of Physics
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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.