[Blog Post] Peter Bakker on the VMS

[RenegadeHealer]

Even though his conclusion is a bit "self explaining" ( "The mere fact that it has not been decoded, means that it is not decodable"), I think the article is worth reading as a summary.

This sums up the article, and my thoughts on it, pretty well. Thank you for that, bi3mw. I'd gladly read a whole book by Peter Bakker, he has a writing style that's fun to read.

That said, I found his "absence of evidence is good enough evidence of absence for me" a bit of a letdown. For some reason I pictured a linguist explaining how the VMs could be at the same time both meaningful and probably undecipherable.

As JKP mentions, I think the real fruit of discovering how the VMs was made is greater understanding of how the human mind arranges and processes information. For example, if it is eventually revealed to be a code hiding a plaintext, I predict we will learn a great deal about the human mind's ability to arrange, associate, and hide information in symbols.

And then there are people who just like the VMs, and the process of trying to solve the mystery, for its own sake. It's definitely not appealing to everyone. For anyone highly practical, working on the VMs makes no sense, when comparing potential investments to potential payoff. The content (be there any) and premise are probably more prosaic than we often imagine. Even if the story of its creation and creator are interesting (as I predict they will be), the content itself will probably feel at least a bit anticlimactic.