09-04-2020, 07:28 PM
I think to use a very crude analogy:
If one compares a human being to mold one would think these two things have nothing in common. However, of course, we know they have a huge amount in common. At the cellular level they are both remarkably incredibly similar, so they really have a vast amount in common fundamentally. My simple point is that two things can appear extremely different, yet are in fact extremely similar. Obviously living organisms and ciphers are two quite different things. However I think the analogy has some value. Whilst on the surface Voynichese might appear to be very different from ciphers of that period that doesn't mean that it isn't a closely related form of cipher, though different in some respect(s).
If one compares a human being to mold one would think these two things have nothing in common. However, of course, we know they have a huge amount in common. At the cellular level they are both remarkably incredibly similar, so they really have a vast amount in common fundamentally. My simple point is that two things can appear extremely different, yet are in fact extremely similar. Obviously living organisms and ciphers are two quite different things. However I think the analogy has some value. Whilst on the surface Voynichese might appear to be very different from ciphers of that period that doesn't mean that it isn't a closely related form of cipher, though different in some respect(s).