15-02-2021, 02:08 PM
(15-02-2021, 11:03 AM)Stephen Carlson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This is more narrowly drawn than the comment I was responding to, but even so, what if the intention was to fake a likeness of an imagined document, written in a never-before-seen exotic script and language?A document that exists only in the imagination cannot be faked, right? It is in any case an original that at most in the structure, as far as this can be recognized in the illustrations, leans on other works. As already written, the VMS should, in my opinion, give the impression of a compilation. The probability that there is a certain amount of information content in this text is therefore much higher than the probability that, mainly around the illustrations, only completely meaningless text was placed.
I think the "meaningless text theory", whether generated or not, is based on one conclusion, namely that the text can only be meaningless because we cannot read it despite great efforts. What is more likely, that we simply have not yet found a "key" to understand the VMS or that someone or a group of people sat down to write a meaningless manuscript that requires a considerable effort of systematics just because of its meaninglessness ?