[Interview] An interview with Adam Lewis

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of another phrase specifically said phrase ID biros when he said layer 2 scultura realised that was actually part of what people are saying that oh no that was not what it was in fact that was due to a typo the actual phrase here should be this hard just be authoritative of the author I guess the number one reference we could ever get to prove that it's right and management scripts having been written hundred years ago believe be bleeding I believe The Returned be happy for others so much money and I suppose the best alternative we can have to that would be similarly if we were to discover more text written in the boiler cheese script sure to give us some sort of confirmation of one of the Fairies fly about a and London tours the more drama we only have the one manuscript there's only so much portable single source right I drink just now the problem you see with many series is that it's system internal reference manuscript so say they go I think sunflower so this word must be this way just Swan interpretation sitting on top of another and you're not really getting anywhere and I think that really plus any good argument in general um you can see Rise theorise all you want but unless you have some sort of proof to back it up it's always going to remain rat rod is there anything else that successful decryption 7 common yes are the third elements that I was able to pull out this is less about the actual properties of a text in word about methodology and I'm I'm calling this kind of picking a good hypothesis and running with it based on the Foundation of the data where the idea is basically if you're going to be working on a proposed solution be founded on data that's just first and foremost this was in Willoughby this was in cryptos statistical analysis and other data was always this is a fact of the text this fact and I think something that is present in voynich attacks are our kind of informed by here's my idea first what's your booking form V what I find to that which is not the right approach so Dominator and then beer would be to what kind of data we have here can we go from that light we assume that this might be the case and then does the data support that chip then the idea being essentially weather exteriors Thomson a reasoning you have to make throughout the process hypothesis then the stronger it is and I just something I kind of in symbology tense was Ulla Johnson logic one specific kids that I did look a little deeper into was the one bar in September of this past year 2017 d Nicholas Gibbs attempt that was written about in the Times literary supplement I can rub into that all day but the idea basically being there is no basis for thinking oh it's criteria for affordable home are forgotten what was it about car insurance you just have to get abbreviated Latin I think who is an abbreviated Latin that is mine was eBay wanted abbreviated Latin sentence and each word of going he was actually sentence a sentence but weather represented in Latin word I just had so many possibilities per letter that per word you could a flat like a thousand different translations and it became possible yes topologically had there was the Foundation of the argument rested on not the data but rather there is an index and the index happens to be at the bottom missing there's really no foundation to that's the kids and I think that's kind of the court whatever doing it doesn't work yeah but wouldn't just say that if you start from me a decent working hypothesis that's completely hypothetical that's still you could accumulate so much part of its debts your attempt could become successful to some extent I definitely think that that is possible to degree if it seems to work and work and work and be internally consistent that I think so but then we kind of run into the problem of I once again needing an external reference to you I have sent you a reply so for all we know you're maybe one of you existing content has been successful and was very rigorous in its methodology we can't call it yeah someone also asked like you looked at a linear B and C I S crypto statue things that are completely different from each other and from the voynich manuscript and we think that you may have better chosen examples closer to the 15th century it is definitely going to look at debris examples graffiti techniques in the modern day or simply just different from what was it been done before and I think about you continue researching I would want to look at more contemporary to the voynich manuscript sources Super Mario sewage pipes the exam have time to do that you're less than half the age of the other people we interview so you still have lots of time to it chat with more planets research definitely that would be a great opportunity to continue to look into arm one piece a red when I was researching was that cryptographic techniques from the 18th century would be very easily sample by computer today which is worth keeping in mind for sure reasons why children are being typically are over somebody once I was looking at to go into deeper Focus was I think that those two are good examples of August the two different approaches are people view the bonnets registered as a text one is as a translation and the other is friction which streams yeah and I guess my mindset was isolates this approach what do we learn coming from the other approach lion and can we find any similarities and that since the one who transcripts looked at afternoon so yeah you've been studying the voynich manuscript for about a year now maybe your in The Fall so you must have read the lord of opinion series about it to service a 1 Theory that's your favourites at the moment I wouldn't quite cold my favourite skills favourite so what are the theories I read was the dad's arm that the punishment script was created through the use of a text generation algorithm on a particular paper a red when she went into detail about Tom propeller sporting is making a series of light garden rugs Merton registry the registry fibre optic if I was understand paper correctly the theory that work proposes accounts for all of the interesting linguistic properties of the voynich text which I think is something that chappie undervalued here because the punishment is good person unique linguistic properties if this account for those then it already has a pretty strong standing in the data V I got the last the address part of his argument I've been it might have been created as a financial gain opportunity by hoaxes make it in a quick enough amount of time that it would be worth the time to do I'm saying and the researchers were able to a method that would have been available in the 15th century to created not to recreate the whole thing in couple of days Saltney Road the thing about why recreating the statistical properties is such I guess that in itself is confusing to me is because you want to get the bonnet if text has unique properties Derry unlike two languages and I would be curious to see generated in that way just so natural language then will be the explanation as to why it has these particular properties little languages don't I just want to know what what about this language and if that can explain that send fit in with other things we already know that the text then one of at least the more convincing ones that read ok ok Adam just very nice talking to you beautiful thank you for this interview

I like that "Voynich manuscript" sometimes come out as "the punishment script".