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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The philosophy of computation reformulates existing ideas on a
 new basis --- getting somewhere
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 21:19:10 -0600
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On 11/3/2024 7:46 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 11/3/24 8:38 PM, olcott wrote:
>> On 11/3/2024 7:26 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>> On 11/3/24 8:21 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What would an unbounded emulation do?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Keep on emulating for an unbounded number of steps.
>>>
>>> Something you don't seem to understand as part of the requirements.
>>>
>>> Non-Halting isn't just did reach a final state in some finite number 
>>> of steps, but that it will NEVER reach a final state even if you 
>>> process an unbounded number of steps.
>>
>> Would an unbounded emulation of DDD by HHH halt?
> 
> Not a valid question, as your HHH does not do an unbounded emulation, 
> but aborts after a defined time.
> 

*Now you are contradicting yourself*
YOU JUST SAID THAT HHH NEED NOT DO AN UNBOUNDED
EMULATION TO PREDICT WHAT AN UNBOUNDED EMULATION WOULD DO.

On 11/3/2024 12:20 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
 > On 11/3/24 9:39 AM, olcott wrote:
 >>
 >> The finite string input to HHH specifies that HHH
 >> MUST EMULATE ITSELF emulating DDD.
 >
 > Right, and it must CORRECTLY determine what an unbounded
 > emulation of that input would do, even if its own programming
 > only lets it emulate a part of that.
 >


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