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

[Ben Trovato]

If it was an algorithm, it was executed by humans. If some features turned out to be preferences of the different scribes, I don't think that would tell us much about the writing/ encoding / generating system they used.

Maybe the conception of an "algorithm" might be misleading. One could think rather of a set of rules for producing text (or, filling a page with symbols) that is applied in different ways by different persons - they don't even have to be aware of that differences, yet an analysis of their respective work might reveal them (and we can come up with an actual algorithm to mimic them). I think this had consequences for the settings we can assume for the production of the manuscript.