@ARTICLE{10.3389/fphy.2016.00047, AUTHOR={Wichert, Andreas and Moreira, Catarina}, TITLE={Probabilities and Shannon's Entropy in the Everett Many-Worlds Theory}, JOURNAL={Frontiers in Physics}, VOLUME={4}, YEAR={2016}, URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2016.00047}, DOI={10.3389/fphy.2016.00047}, ISSN={2296-424X}, ABSTRACT={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.} }