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Probabilities and Shannon's Entropy in the Everett Many-Worlds Theory

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posted on 2018-02-23, 14:28 authored by Andreas Wichert, Catarina Moreira
Following a controversial suggestion by David Deutsch that decision theory can solve the problem of probabilities in the Everett many-worlds we suggest that the probabilities are induced by Shannon's entropy that measures the uncertainty of events. We argue that a relational person prefers certainty to uncertainty due to fundamental biological principle of homeostasis.

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Frontiers in Physics, 2016, 4:47

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Frontiers in Physics

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2016-11-22

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2016

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2018-02-23

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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2016.00047/full

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