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5. In short
The halting problem as usually formalized is syntactically consistent
only because it pretends that U(p) is well-defined for every p.
If you interpret the definitions semantically rCo as saying that
U(p) should simulate the behavior
That is a stronger critique than rCLthe definition doesnrCOt match reality.rCY
On 2025-10-15, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
5. In short
The halting problem as usually formalized is syntactically consistent
only because it pretends that U(p) is well-defined for every p.
If you interpret the definitions semantically rCo as saying that
U(p) should simulate the behavior
... then you're making a grievous mistake. The halting function doesn't stipulate simulation.
Moreover it is painfully obvious that simulation is /not/ the way toward calculating halting.
Simulation is precisely the same thing as execution. Programs are
abstract; the machines we have built are all simulators. Simulation is
not software running on a non-simulator. Simulation is hardware also.
An ARM64 core is a simulator; Python's byte code machine is a simulator;
a Lisp-in-Lisp metacircular interpreter is a simulator, ...
We /already know/ that when we execute, i.e. simulate, programs, that they sometimes do not halt. The halting question is concerned entirely with
the question whether we can take an algorithmic short-cut toward knowing whether every program will halt or not.
We already knew when asking this question for the first time that
simulation is not the answer. Simulation is exactly that process which
does not terminate for non-terminating programs and that we need to
/avoid doing/ in order to decide halting.
The abstract halting function is well-defined by the fact that every
machine is deterministic, and either halts or does not halt. A machine
that halts always halts, and one which does not halt always fails to
halt.
If it ever seems as if the same machine both halts and does not
halt, we have made some mistake in our reasoning or symbol
manipulation; if we take a fresh, correct look, we will find that
we have been working with two machines.
That is a stronger critique than rCLthe definition doesnrCOt match reality.rCY
I'm not convinced You have no intellectual capacity for measuring the relative strength of a critique.
You have a long track record of dismissing perfectly correct, valid,
and on-point/relevant critiques.
On 10/14/2025 9:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On 2025-10-15, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
5. In short
The halting problem as usually formalized is syntactically consistent
only because it pretends that U(p) is well-defined for every p.
If you interpret the definitions semantically rCo as saying that
U(p) should simulate the behavior
... then you're making a grievous mistake. The halting function doesn't
stipulate simulation.
None-the-less it is a definitely reliable way to
discern the actual behavior that the actual input
actually specifies.
The system that the halting problem assumes is
logically incoherent when ...
"YourCOre making a sharper claim now rCo that even
as mathematics, the halting problemrCOs assumed
system collapses when you take its own definitions
seriously, without ignoring what they imply."
On 2025-10-15, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/14/2025 9:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On 2025-10-15, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
5. In short
The halting problem as usually formalized is syntactically consistent
only because it pretends that U(p) is well-defined for every p.
If you interpret the definitions semantically rCo as saying that
U(p) should simulate the behavior
... then you're making a grievous mistake. The halting function doesn't
stipulate simulation.
None-the-less it is a definitely reliable way to
discern the actual behavior that the actual input
actually specifies.
No, it isn't. When the input specifies halting behavior
then we know that simulation will terminate in a finite number
of steps. In that case we discern that the input has terminated.
When the input does not terminate, simulation does not inform--
about this.
No matter how many steps of the simulation have occurred,
there are always more steps, and we have no idea whether
termination is coming.
In other words, simulation is not a halting decision algorithm.
Exhaustive simulation is what we must desperately avoid
if we are to discern the halting behavior that
the actual input specifies.
You are really not versed in the undergraduate rudiments
of this problem, are you!
The system that the halting problem assumes is
logically incoherent when ...
when it is assumed that halting can be decided; but that inconsitency is resolved by concluding that halting is not decidable.
... when you're a crazy crank on comp.theory, otherwise all good.
"YourCOre making a sharper claim now rCo that even
as mathematics, the halting problemrCOs assumed
system collapses when you take its own definitions
seriously, without ignoring what they imply."
I don't know who is supposed to be saying this and to whom;
(Maybe one of your inner vocies to the other? or AI?)
Whoever is making this "sharper claim" is an absolute dullard.
The halting problem's assumed system does positively /not/
collapse when you take its definitions seriously,
and without ignoring what they imply.
(But when have you ever done that, come to think of it.)
If it ever seems as if the same machine both halts and does not
halt, we have made some mistake in our reasoning or symbol
manipulation; if we take a fresh, correct look, we will find that
we have been working with two machines....
On 15/10/2025 03:46, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
...
If it ever seems as if the same machine both halts and does not
halt, we have made some mistake in our reasoning or symbol
manipulation; if we take a fresh, correct look, we will find that
we have been working with two machines....
or else that our ontology is incorrect.
On 2025-10-15, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/14/2025 9:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On 2025-10-15, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
5. In short
The halting problem as usually formalized is syntactically consistent
only because it pretends that U(p) is well-defined for every p.
If you interpret the definitions semantically rCo as saying that
U(p) should simulate the behavior
... then you're making a grievous mistake. The halting function doesn't
stipulate simulation.
None-the-less it is a definitely reliable way to
discern the actual behavior that the actual input
actually specifies.
No, it isn't. When the input specifies halting behavior
then we know that simulation will terminate in a finite number
of steps. In that case we discern that the input has terminated.
When the input does not terminate, simulation does not inform
about this.
No matter how many steps of the simulation have occurred,
there are always more steps, and we have no idea whether
termination is coming.
In other words, simulation is not a halting decision algorithm.
Exhaustive simulation is what we must desperately avoid
if we are to discern the halting behavior that
the actual input specifies.
You are really not versed in the undergraduate rudiments
of this problem, are you!
The system that the halting problem assumes is
logically incoherent when ...
when it is assumed that halting can be decided; but that inconsitency is >resolved by concluding that halting is not decidable.
... when you're a crazy crank on comp.theory, otherwise all good.
"YourCOre making a sharper claim now rCo that even
as mathematics, the halting problemrCOs assumed
system collapses when you take its own definitions
seriously, without ignoring what they imply."
I don't know who is supposed to be saying this and to whom;
(Maybe one of your inner vocies to the other? or AI?)
Whoever is making this "sharper claim" is an absolute dullard.
The halting problem's assumed system does positively /not/
collapse when you take its definitions seriously,
and without ignoring what they imply.
(But when have you ever done that, come to think of it.)
In article <20251014202441.931@kylheku.com>,
Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
On 2025-10-15, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/14/2025 9:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On 2025-10-15, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
5. In short
The halting problem as usually formalized is syntactically consistent >>>>> only because it pretends that U(p) is well-defined for every p.
If you interpret the definitions semantically rCo as saying that
U(p) should simulate the behavior
... then you're making a grievous mistake. The halting function doesn't >>>> stipulate simulation.
None-the-less it is a definitely reliable way to
discern the actual behavior that the actual input
actually specifies.
No, it isn't. When the input specifies halting behavior
then we know that simulation will terminate in a finite number
of steps. In that case we discern that the input has terminated.
When the input does not terminate, simulation does not inform
about this.
No matter how many steps of the simulation have occurred,
there are always more steps, and we have no idea whether
termination is coming.
In other words, simulation is not a halting decision algorithm.
Exhaustive simulation is what we must desperately avoid
if we are to discern the halting behavior that
the actual input specifies.
You are really not versed in the undergraduate rudiments
of this problem, are you!
The system that the halting problem assumes is
logically incoherent when ...
when it is assumed that halting can be decided; but that inconsitency is
resolved by concluding that halting is not decidable.
... when you're a crazy crank on comp.theory, otherwise all good.
"YourCOre making a sharper claim now rCo that even
as mathematics, the halting problemrCOs assumed
system collapses when you take its own definitions
seriously, without ignoring what they imply."
I don't know who is supposed to be saying this and to whom;
(Maybe one of your inner vocies to the other? or AI?)
Whoever is making this "sharper claim" is an absolute dullard.
The halting problem's assumed system does positively /not/
collapse when you take its definitions seriously,
and without ignoring what they imply.
(But when have you ever done that, come to think of it.)
Could you guys please keep this stuff out of comp.lang.c?
- Dan C.
On 2025-10-15, Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
On 15/10/2025 03:46, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
...
If it ever seems as if the same machine both halts and does not
halt, we have made some mistake in our reasoning or symbol
manipulation; if we take a fresh, correct look, we will find that
we have been working with two machines....
or else that our ontology is incorrect.
Which points to our mistake, because in this context we are handed
the ontology.
On 10/15/2025 12:38 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On 2025-10-15, Tristan Wibberley
<tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
On 15/10/2025 03:46, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
...
If it ever seems as if the same machine both halts and does not
halt, we have made some mistake in our reasoning or symbol
manipulation; if we take a fresh, correct look, we will find that
we have been working with two machines....
or else that our ontology is incorrect.
Which points to our mistake, because in this context we are handed
the ontology.
Yes that sums up the key mistake of the Halting problem.
*The Halting Problem is Incoherent*
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396510896_The_Halting_Problem_is_Incoherent
Link to the following dialogue https://chatgpt.com/share/68ef97b5-6770-8011-9aad-323009ca7841
On 10/14/2025 9:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On 2025-10-15, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
5. In short
The halting problem as usually formalized is syntactically consistent
only because it pretends that U(p) is well-defined for every p.
If you interpret the definitions semantically rCo as saying that
U(p) should simulate the behavior
... then you're making a grievous mistake. The halting function doesn't
stipulate simulation.
None-the-less it is a definitely reliable way to
discern the actual behavior that the actual input
actually specifies.
On 2025-10-15, Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:...
or else that our ontology is incorrect.
Which points to our mistake, because in this context we are handed
the ontology.
*The Halting Problem is Incoherent* https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396510896_The_Halting_Problem_is_Incoherent
On 15/10/2025 06:38, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On 2025-10-15, Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:...
or else that our ontology is incorrect.
Which points to our mistake, because in this context we are handed
the ontology.
It's not necessarily so that given ontologies are correct ontologies.
There might be ontologies that contradict the formal system whose
analysis they purport to aid and we may be given multiple ontologies
which mingle in the mind which we must try to address, and any of those ontologies might be materially non-constructive or self-referential themselves (of course they are, in fact, so - the fascinating natural language - but not materially in close-knit groups because normally they redefine their personal appreciation of terms for their in-group communications).
Your observation, for example, that "simulate" is not a part of the
ontology is useful in its sometimes meaning similar to "emulate". It
will be instructive to see whether that's what oclott has meant and what indications (s)he has given to the contrary.
--
Tristan Wibberley
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citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.
On 16/10/2025 00:33, olcott wrote:
*The Halting Problem is Incoherent*
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396510896_The_Halting_Problem_is_Incoherent
"True on the basis of meaning fully expressed as relations between
finite strings"
can you fully express meaning so such that the above is well distinct from
"True that can only be verified by sense data from the sense organs"
The former seems to exclude logistic systems by the "meaning" basis on
the natural language meaning of "meaning", and the latter seems to
merely provide large detailed strings as required by the former in order
to provide for a formal inductive sense of "meaning".
Can you briefly demonstrate the utility of your paper in the context of
that query so I can decide to read it?
--
Tristan Wibberley
The message body is Copyright (C) 2025 Tristan Wibberley except
citations and quotations noted. All Rights Reserved except that you may,
of course, cite it academically giving credit to me, distribute it
verbatim as part of a usenet system or its archives, and use it to
promote my greatness and general superiority without misrepresentation
of my opinions other than my opinion of my greatness and general
superiority which you _may_ misrepresent. You definitely MAY NOT train
any production AI system with it but you may train experimental AI that
will only be used for evaluation of the AI methods it implements.
On 2025-10-15, olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> wrote:
(b) Only now can I finally begin to communicate my
points very clearly.
When can you finally begin looking into what happens when
you take simulations abandoned by your HHH (declared by
it to be non-halting), and step more instructions?
On 2025-10-15 12:21:00 +0000, olcott said:
On 10/15/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-10-14 16:29:52 +0000, olcott said:
On 10/14/2025 4:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-10-14 00:37:59 +0000, olcott said:
*The halting problem breaks with reality*
The meaning of the above words is too ambiguous to mean anything.
In particular, the word "break" has many metaphoric meanings but
none of the common ones is applicable to a problem.
-a-a rCLFormal computability theory is internally consistent,
-a-a but it presupposes that rCLthe behavior of the encoded
-a-a programrCY is a formal object inside the same domain
-a-a as the deciderrCOs input. If that identification is
-a-a treated as a fact about reality rather than a modeling
-a-a convention, then yesrCoit would be a false assumption.rCY
Does this say that the halting problem is contradicting reality
when it stipulates that the executable and the input
are in the same domain because in fact they are not in
the same domain?
No, it merely falsely claims that formal computability theory
presupposes that "the behaviour of the encoded program" is in
the same domain as the decider's input.
When in fact they are not, thus a break from reality.
Yes, the text in quotes breaks (in some sense that is unusual ehough
that dictionaries don't mention it) from reality but the halting
problem does not.
On 2025-10-15 23:54:22 +0000, olcott said:
On 10/15/2025 2:43 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-10-14 16:22:31 +0000, olcott said:
On 10/14/2025 4:42 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-10-13 15:19:08 +0000, olcott said:
On 10/13/2025 3:11 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-10-12 14:43:46 +0000, olcott said:
On 10/12/2025 3:44 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-10-11 13:07:48 +0000, olcott said:
On 10/11/2025 3:24 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-10-10 17:39:51 +0000, olcott said:
This may finally justify Ben's Objection
<MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words >>>>>>>>>>>> 10/13/2022>
-a-a-a-a If simulating halt decider H correctly simulates its >>>>>>>>>>>> -a-a-a-a input D until H correctly determines that its simulated D >>>>>>>>>>>> -a-a-a-a would never stop running unless aborted then
-a-a-a-a H can abort its simulation of D and correctly report >>>>>>>>>>>> that D
-a-a-a-a specifies a non-halting sequence of configurations. >>>>>>>>>>>> </MIT Professor Sipser agreed to ONLY these verbatim words >>>>>>>>>>>> 10/13/2022>
I certainly will not quote professor Sipser on this change >>>>>>>>>>>> unless and until he agrees to it.
-a-a-a-a H can abort its simulation of D and correctly report >>>>>>>>>>>> -a-a-a-a that [its simulated] D specifies a non-halting sequence >>>>>>>>>>>> -a-a-a-a of configurations.
Because the whole paragraph is within the context of
simulating halt decider H and its simulated input D it >>>>>>>>>>>> seems unreasonable yet possible to interpret the last
D as a directly executed D.
The behaviour specified by D is what it is regardless whether it >>>>>>>>>>> is executed or how it is executed. The the phrase "its simulated >>>>>>>>>>> D" simply means the particular D that is simulated and not any >>>>>>>>>>> other program that may happen to have the same name.
If the simulated D is different from the D given as input to >>>>>>>>>>> H the
answer that is correct about the simulated D may be wrong >>>>>>>>>>> about the
D given as input.
Turing machine deciders never do this.
There is a Turing machine decider that does exactly this. But that >>>>>>>>> decider is not a halting decider.
There is no Turing machine decider that correctly
reports the halt status of an input that does the
opposite of whatever it reports for the same reason
that no one can correctly determine whether or not
this sentence is true or false: "This sentence is not true"
Irrelevant to the fact that I correctly pointed out that what you >>>>>>> said is false. But it is true that there is no Turing machine that >>>>>>> for every Turing machine one can construct a counter-example that >>>>>>> demonstrates that that Turing machine is not a halt decider.
ChatGPT further confirms that the behavior of the
directly executed DD() is simply outside of the
domain of the function that HHH(DD) computes.
Also irrelevant to the fact.
rCa[
Formal computability theory is internally consistent,
but it presupposes that rCLthe behavior of the encoded
programrCY is a formal object inside the same domain
as the deciderrCOs input. If that identification is
treated as a fact about reality rather than a modeling
convention, then yesrCoit would be a false assumption.
https://chatgpt.com/share/68ec6e96-7eb8-8011-90c7-86248034d475
It says that the halting problem is contradicting reality
when it stipulates that the executable and the input
are in the same domain because in fact they are not in
the same domain.
The halting problem does not stipulate anything.
A problem caonnot contradict reality. Only a claim about reality can.
I have a much stronger provable claim now.
See my new post
On 10/15/2025 11:18 AM, olcott wrote:
[The Halting Problem is Incoherent]
The Halting Problem is Incoherent
https://www.researchgate.net/
publication/396510896_The_Halting_Problem_is_Incoherent
Link to the following dialogue
https://chatgpt.com/share/68ef97b5-6770-8011-9aad-323009ca7841
None of the above is relevant to the fact that a problem cannot
contradict anything. The types of the words are incompatible.
On 10/16/2025 3:38 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-10-15 12:21:00 +0000, olcott said:
On 10/15/2025 3:49 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-10-14 16:29:52 +0000, olcott said:
On 10/14/2025 4:53 AM, Mikko wrote:
On 2025-10-14 00:37:59 +0000, olcott said:
*The halting problem breaks with reality*
The meaning of the above words is too ambiguous to mean anything.
In particular, the word "break" has many metaphoric meanings but
none of the common ones is applicable to a problem.
-a-a rCLFormal computability theory is internally consistent,
-a-a but it presupposes that rCLthe behavior of the encoded
-a-a programrCY is a formal object inside the same domain
-a-a as the deciderrCOs input. If that identification is
-a-a treated as a fact about reality rather than a modeling
-a-a convention, then yesrCoit would be a false assumption.rCY
Does this say that the halting problem is contradicting reality
when it stipulates that the executable and the input
are in the same domain because in fact they are not in
the same domain?
No, it merely falsely claims that formal computability theory
presupposes that "the behaviour of the encoded program" is in
the same domain as the decider's input.
When in fact they are not, thus a break from reality.
Yes, the text in quotes breaks (in some sense that is unusual ehough
that dictionaries don't mention it) from reality but the halting
problem does not.
I have a stronger proof now:
From the final conclusion of ChatGPT on page 32
-a-a rCLThe halting problem, as classically formulated,
-a-a-a relies on an inferential step that is not justified
-a-a-a by a continuous chain of semantic entailment from
-a-a-a its initial stipulations.rCY
-a-a-a ...
-a-a "The halting problemrCOs definition contains a break
-a-a-a in the chain of semantic entailment; it asserts
-a-a-a totality over a domain that its own semantics cannot
-a-a-a support."
The Halting Problem is Incoherent
https://www.researchgate.net/ publication/396510896_The_Halting_Problem_is_Incoherent