Discussion of "A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript"

[Torsten]

For instance he was for sure able to add a word like <daiin> out of his head, or he could start a new paragraph, or he could invent a new glyph

This is exactly a point I was asking about much earlier on. You can't have auto-copying without some initialisation, and this part is not addressed. The text clearly shows that this was not just a one-off to start the process (like only the first word in the MS) but must have been going on all the time, and relatively frequently.

Where did you ask something about "initialization"? What needed "initialization" in your opinion? It is not clear what you mean.

There was only the need to initialize the first line on an empty page. I have addressed this issue You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: See Timm & Schinner 2019, p. 10: "There was a similar problem for the author of the VMS every time he/she was starting a new (empty) page. ...". See also Timm 2015, p. 30ff: "To use the described text generation method for the initial line of a page it was necessary to use another page as a source. ...".

But you probably mean something like the initialization of the network of similar words or the initialization of the algorithm. I have addressed this issue You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. 

People usually do not plan to think about something in advance or build a complete decision matrix. They plan some goal and try to reach it. This is what people usually do if they want to try to write some kind of text and this is what the scribe was doing while writing the VMS: "Keep in mind that the VMS was created by a human writer who had complete freedom to vary some details of the generating algorithm on the spur of a moment" (Timm & Schinner 2019, p.16). 

There was for instance no plan to write <daiin> seven times and <dain> six times on page f1r. The scribe was not counting the words he was writing (see Timm 2015, p. 7). <daiin> and <dain> occur seven and six times on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. since every decision to copy a particular word has some influence to the text. This is the case since every word is at the same time the result of the copying process and it is also a possible source word for further copying steps (see You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Since the words are copied from each other it is necessary that a number of similar words are used more frequently than others. But it is not necessary that this words must be <daiin> and <dain>. This is the reason that words with many similar ones are frequently used and words with no similar ones occur only once. This is the explanation for the observation that no "obvious rule can be deduced which words form the top-frequency tokens at a specific location because a token dominating one page might be rare or missing on the next one." (Timm & Schinner 2019, p. 3) and since no unchangeable decision matrix was used it is necessary that the text was changing over time (see Timm 2015, p. 25). Only therefore we see the gradual evolution of a single system from Currier A to Currier B (see Timm & Schinner 2019, p. 7).