Talk:Henry Stapp

message: LBL's webpages lists Stapp has a "guest", not a professor.  Source: http://www.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/ds/ds.cgi?include=n&peopleName=Stapp&deptName=&submit=SEARCH.  Therefore I edited the article to reflect this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.79.190 (talk) 16:46, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: However, LBL's web pages also list him as being on their scientific staff (see https://commons.lbl.gov/display/lbldiv/Physics+Scientific+Staff). I have edited the article to reflect this as I think it is relevant. I think, by the way, that these two staff references don't deserve to be in the reference list itself, but if I just use the ref tag a mysterious lock appears (does this just mean it is an https URL?) so I used the same method as for the retirement list. --Brian Josephson (talk) 21:44, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

text: I second this.  Google Scholar lists numerous articles by him, but I'm not expert enough in these other areas to be able to add content in myself. --Brian Josephson (talk) 21:44, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  guest 

message: The section Consciousness of the main article contains phrases like 
*"deterministic evolution of mathematical properties in accordance with a deterministic equation Schrödinger's equation"
*"mathematically determined evolution via Schrödinger's equation"
Schrödinger certainly preferred a deterministic interpretation of his equation and of the wavefunction ψ, and "always opposed a statistical or probabilistic approach, with its associated discontinuities" but ...
In consideration of the above, I will temporarily: 
*Append a  template at the top of the section Consciousness
*Append inline  templates in correspondence of the above disputed phrases. 
If no comment on the above is forthcoming, I will proceed to edit directly the section Consciousness of the main article, removing all references to a deterministic interpretation of Schrödinger's equation. </br>Miguel de Servet (talk) 16:05, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious references to Schrödinger's equation as "deterministic" 

message: There's a small paragraph at the end of this article dealing with "Quantum Darwinism".  Stapp never worked on QD nor, as far as I know, is his work applied in QD.  I think it would be more appropriate to include a link to the wiki page on QD rather than include it in the text, as it is irrelevant.  This paragraph seems to be a brazen advertisement for a far-out theory attempting to link it to a renowned and bona fide physicist.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.3.113.232 (talk) 13:49, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right. I removed the paragraph.-- Belsazar (talk) 21:50, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quantum Darwinism 

message: Google Scholar (use author search) shows that Stapp's book Mind, Matter and QM has been cited 502 times in scientific articles.  This is surely enough to establish notability, and I therefore suggest that the box at the top of the article saying 'The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline' be removed. --Brian Josephson (talk) 21:50, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. SlimVirgin TALK|CONTRIBS 22:12, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: A search revealed a useful mini-biography (in the references list, no. 3 I believe) and used it to expand the article.  It lists quite a number of fields Stapp has worked in, and it would be good if some diligent person could use Google Scholar to add some of these to the references or external links (Google shows the number of citations, which may be useful to decide which ones to include). --Brian Josephson (talk) 09:15, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  More references? 

message: Stapp seems to have been born in about 1930.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.42.37 (talk) 16:25, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Stapp's place of birth is not in the article, either.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.42.37 (talk) 16:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Stapp's name seems to be Henry P. Stapp.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.124.253 (talk) 12:35, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth etc. 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article page gives Stapp's date of birth as March 23, 1928, but his age as 92.  Today's date is March 24, 2021, so if the DoB is correct his current age is 93.  What has gone wrong?  It isn't that the age has been entered wrongly; the age is not included on the source page that you see if you click on edit.  So it must have been generated by an algorithm, but it clearly isn't workng now.  No doubt this connected with what appears to be a major update, so major indeed that the editing tools seem to be invisible!  However, that was using Firefox as the browser and now that I've switched to Safari editing appears as normal.--Brian Josephson (talk) 18:35, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've solved the problem and it is now showing the right age.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Birth_date_and_age for details.--Brian Josephson (talk) 19:34, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This is really weird!  I checked this morning and saw that Stapp's age had gone back to 92.  Perhaps some bot had noticed that the text hadn't changed and somehow reverted?  I've had another go now, with two edits, the first one adding a spurious character and the second one removing it but without using revert.  Hopefully it is now really fixed! --Brian Josephson (talk) 08:33, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age error