Re: Who here understands that the last paragraph is Necessarily true? --- Self-Modifying Turing Machine

On 2024-07-19 19:10, olcott wrote:

On 7/19/2024 7:44 PM, André G. Isaak wrote:

On 2024-07-19 10:02, olcott wrote:
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A Self-Modifying Turing Machine is defined as a Turing
Machine Description that has access to its own tape
location on the UTM that is simulating it.

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Umm. Maybe explain how that's supposed to work...
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A TM has no idea whether it is being run directly or being run in a UTM. And even if it is being run in a UTM, it certainly does NOT have access to the machine description which is present on the UTM's tape.
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 A self-modifying TM knows that it is only simulated by a UTM

How exactly is it supposed to know that? Please explain using ACTUAL Turing Machines, not C code.

and knows where it is located on the UTM tape.

And how exactly would it have access to that? A TM emulated by a UTM has no access to the UTM's tape.

There's lots of examples of UTMs available on the web. Maybe you should actually try playing around with some of them so you can learn how actual UTMs work. Hint: It's not how you think.

Once again, you should head the above advice. Apparently you have no clue how actual UTMs work.
André
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