10-01-2023, 11:14 PM
What immediately came to my mind when I started reading your post is "we don't know yet what happens when subjects are asked to produce much longer texts over various sessions. How consistent will it remain? Is there drift? How quickly do they go insane and/or resent the assignment? Knowing the implications of scale would be very interesting, but probably hard to test since it's asking a lot of participants. It is something I might try myself (write for 20 minutes a day over a couple of months, no big deal) but I believe that my knowledge of Voynichese statistics would make this exercise worthless.
The fact that results were so variable is interesting, but also points out the difficulty of this line of investigation. How can we ever move beyond "it's not impossible"? How do we differentiate this experiment from the hypothetical infinite monkeys on typewriters who will eventually produce Voynichese but also any other language?
The fact that results were so variable is interesting, but also points out the difficulty of this line of investigation. How can we ever move beyond "it's not impossible"? How do we differentiate this experiment from the hypothetical infinite monkeys on typewriters who will eventually produce Voynichese but also any other language?
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