ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT INFORMATIONAL MEASURES CONSTITUTE PHYSICAL ENFORCEMENT

This paper examines the hidden physical assumption that informational measures themselves constitute mechanisms of physical enforcement. Using a strict logical-necessity framework, it tests whether an informational quantity—defined purely as a descriptive measure and not its physical substrate—can enforce constraints through force, energy exchange, momentum transfer, back-reaction, or modification of equations of motion. By applying an enforcement test and a removal criterion, the paper shows that removing the informational measure leaves all physical interactions invariant, establishing that the measure does not act as a physical driver. The analysis isolates the distinction between physical constraints and descriptive bookkeeping without introducing new physics or interpretation.