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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Defining a correct simulating halt decider
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 09:58:39 -0500
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On 9/3/2024 9:42 AM, joes wrote:
> Am Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:06:24 -0500 schrieb olcott:
>> On 9/2/2024 12:52 PM, Fred. Zwarts wrote:
>>> Op 02.sep.2024 om 18:38 schreef olcott:
>>>> A halt decider is a Turing machine that computes the mapping from its
>>>> finite string input to the behavior that this finite string specifies.
>>>> If the finite string machine string machine description specifies that
>>>> it cannot possibly reach its own final halt state then this machine
>>>> description specifies non-halting behavior.
> Which DDD does not.
>>>> A halt decider never ever computes the mapping for the computation
>>>> that itself is contained within.
> Then it is not total.
>>>> Unless there is a pathological relationship between the halt decider H
>>>> and its input D the direct execution of this input D will always have
>>>> identical behavior to D correctly simulated by simulating halt decider
>>>> H.
> Which makes this pathological input a counterexample.
>>>> A correct emulation of DDD by HHH only requires that HHH emulate the
>>>> instructions of DDD** including when DDD calls HHH in recursive
>>>> emulation such that HHH emulates itself emulating DDD.
>>> Indeed, it should simulate *itself* and not a hypothetical other HHH
>>> with different behaviour.
>> It is emulating the exact same freaking machine code that the x86utm
>> operating system is emulating.
> It is not simulating the abort because of a static variable. Why?
> 
>>> If HHH includes code to see a 'special condition' and aborts and halts,
>>> then it should also simulate the HHH that includes this same code and
>> DDD has itself and the emulated HHH stuck in recursive emulation.
> Your HHH incorrectly changes behaviour.
> 

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