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   olcott to Richard Damon   
   Re: Who is telling the truth here? HHH(D   
   31 Jul 25 20:03:15   
   
   XPost: comp.theory, sci.logic   
   From: polcott333@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/31/2025 7:37 PM, Richard Damon wrote:   
   > On 7/31/25 8:18 PM, olcott wrote:   
   >> On 7/31/2025 7:07 PM, Richard Damon wrote:   
   >>> On 7/31/25 11:50 AM, olcott wrote:   
   >>>> *We are only addressing this one point in this thread*   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On 7/29/2025 11:22 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:   
   >>>>  > It is a lack of technical ability on your   
   >>>>  > part which is unable to judge whether such   
   >>>>  > a correct simulation is possible.  Everybody   
   >>>>  > else sees that it is not, so further questions   
   >>>>  > about it are non-sensical.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> HHH emulates DDD in a separate process context. When   
   >>>> this DDD calls HHH(DDD) the original HHH emulates this   
   >>>> HHH in the DDD process context.   
   >>>   
   >>> And that separate proccess, if left unaborted, would halt. But HHH   
   >>> gives up and aborts it, so the process is Halting, not non-halting.   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This emulated HHH creates yet another process context   
   >>>> to emulate its own DDD. When this DDD calls yet another   
   >>>> HHH(DDD) this provides enough execution trace that the   
   >>>> repeating pattern can be seen.   
   >>>   
   >>> But the pattern isn't non-halting by the fact that DDD is shown to be   
   >>> halting.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> *No not at all. Not in the least little bit*   
   >   
   > Of course it is,   
   >   
   > The pattern can't be non-halting if it occurs in a halting program.   
   >   
   >> Recursive simulation is only a little more difficult   
   >> than self recursion. Do you understand self-recursion?   
   >> What is the classic example of self-recursion?   
   >   
   > but since it is only finite recursion of partial simulation, since the   
   > first level WILL abort the process and end the recursion.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> When N instructions of DDD are correctly emulated by   
   >> every HHH that can possibly exist   
   >> (technically this is an infinite set of HHH/DDD pairs)   
   >> no emulated DDD can possibly halt and every directly   
   >> executed DDD() halts.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Wrong, your problem is you forget that all those DDD are different,   
   It is an infinite set with every HHH/DDD pair having   
   the same property that each DDD cannot possibly halt.   
      
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