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 olcott to All 
 One key aspect of the halting problem it 
 24 Sep 25 09:59:06 
 
XPost: comp.theory, comp.lang.c++, comp.ai.philosophy
From: polcott333@gmail.com

Deciders have always been defined to compute the
mapping from their inputs verifying whether or not
this input specifies a semantic or syntactic property.
The input to a C function is its arguments.

typedef int (*ptr)();
int HHH(ptr P);

int DD()
{
   int Halt_Status = HHH(DD);
   if (Halt_Status)
     HERE: goto HERE;
   return Halt_Status;
}

int main()
{
   DD();
   return 0;
}

The actual executing process of DD() above cannot
possibly be an argument to the HHH(DD) that it calls.

HHH gets the machine address of a finite string of x86
machine code that is *not exactly one-and-the-same-thing*
as the executing process of main()-->DD() shown above.

The Halting Problem is itself a mere bogus ruse because
it requires a halt decider to report on something other
than the semantic property of its actual input. That is
just not the way that Turing machine deciders actually work.


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