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|    olcott to Mikko    |
|    Re: The halting problem is incorrect two    |
|    17 Nov 25 07:31:58    |
      [continued from previous message]              >>> necessary access. Conversely, a proof that the necessary access is       >>> impossible is sufficient to prove that halting problem is unsolvable.       >>       >> Reporing on the behavior of DD() executed from       >> main requires HHH to report on information       >> that is not contained in its input thus it is       >> incorrect to require HHH to report on that.       >       > That HHH fails to meet the requirements does not mean that the       > requirements are wrong. It merely meas that HHH is not a halt       > decider.       >              That HHH fails to meet the requirements by itself does       not mean that the requirements are wrong.              Turing machine deciders only compute a mapping from       their [finite string] inputs to an accept or reject       state on the basis that this [finite string] input       specifies or fails to specify a semantic or syntactic       property.              That the information that HHH is required to report       on simply is not contained in its input is what makes       the requirements wrong.                     --       Copyright 2025 Olcott              My 28 year goal has been to make       "true on the basis of meaning" computable.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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