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Is there a "halting machine" which halts on itself?
The crux of the halting problem is that there can be no Turing machine $M$ such that $\text{Halt}(M(N))=\neg \text{Halt}(N(N))$ for all Turing machines $N$, since $\text{Halt}(M(M))=\neg \text{Halt}(M(...