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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Correcting the definition of the halting problem --- Computable
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:11:38 -0500
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On 3/24/2025 3:18 PM, dbush wrote:
> On 3/24/2025 4:11 PM, olcott wrote:
>> On 3/24/2025 12:35 PM, dbush wrote:
>>> On 3/24/2025 12:44 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>> On 3/24/2025 10:14 AM, dbush wrote:
>>>>> On 3/24/2025 11:03 AM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/24/2025 6:23 AM, Richard Damon wrote:
>>>>>>> On 3/23/25 11:09 PM, olcott wrote:
>>>>>>>> It is impossible for HHH compute the function from the direct
>>>>>>>> execution of DDD because DDD is not the finite string input
>>>>>>>> basis from which all computations must begin.
>>>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> WHy isn't DDD made into the correct finite string?i
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DDD is a semantically and syntactically correct finite
>>>>>> stirng of the x86 machine language.
>>>>>
>>>>> Which includes the machine code of DDD, the machine code of HHH, 
>>>>> and the machine code of everything it calls down to the OS level.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That seems to be your own fault.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The problem has always been that you want to use the wrong string 
>>>>>>> for DDD by excluding the code for HHH from it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DDD emulated by HHH directly causes recursive emulation
>>>>>> because it calls HHH(DDD) to emulate itself again. HHH
>>>>>> complies until HHH determines that this cycle cannot
>>>>>> possibly reach the final halt state of DDD.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Which is another way of saying that HHH can't determine that DDD 
>>>>> halts when executed directly.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> given an input of the function domain it can
>>>> return the corresponding output.
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function
>>>>
>>>> Computable functions are only allowed to compute the
>>>> mapping from their input finite strings to an output.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The HHH you implemented is computing *a* computable function, but 
>>> it's not computing the halting function:
>>>
>>
>> The whole point of this post is to prove that
>> no Turing machine ever reports on the behavior
>> of the direct execution of another Turing machine.
>>
> 
> Sure it can.  Any that takes a description of a turning machine that 
> halt when executed directly is 

It has no way of directly computing this. It can only
compute the behavior that the finite string specifies.

> correct to return 1, regardless of the 
> logic used to do so.
> 
> 

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