Question: Suppose you are given a Turing machine M (not necessarily a decider), a string w, and a magic genie. You can ask the magic genie
Suppose you are given a Turing machine M (not necessarily a decider), a string w, and a magic genie. You can ask the magic genie whether a certain Turing machine halts on a certain input string, and the genie will magically give you the correct yes/no answer. You can ask the genie as many such questions as you like, about any Turing machine and any string.
Describe a strategy you can use to decide whether M accepts w. Remember to decide means to say with certainty that M accepts w or that M does not accept w.
Note: In class, we showed that AT M is undecidable, which means it cannot be decided (without magic) whether a Turing machine M accepts a string w. This means we must use a magic genie in order to be able to answer this question. lecture slide: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/wi17/cse105-ab/day19.pdf
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