The VM as Outsider Art

[oshfdk]

I'm surprised to hear that "Ousider art" is the default hypothesis, since most discussions I've encountered seem to be centered on deciphering the text and illustrations. Can you point out some other sources that elaborate the outsider art hypothesis?

Outsider art is one of the variations of the default hypothesis. The default hypothesis as of recently seems to be that the Voynich manuscript doesn't contain any meaningful message and is one of: 1) a hoax 2) glossolalia 3) angel tongues (channelling). At least most recent articles I've seen that directly address the text and are not withdrawn/refuted shortly after being published usually focus on various ways of producing large amounts of meaningless text with the statistical properties of Voynichese.

I think the overview of the manuscript from Wikipedia lists many of these theories. It mentions outsider art in this section: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

The reason most discussions you've encountered seem to be centered on deciphering the text is probably that there is really not that much to discuss if we assume that the text is meaningless. Sort of looking under the lamppost scenario. However, I think it's possible to find many past discussions that are centered on meaningless text and its statistical properties. Maybe looking up Timm Torsten's threads would be a good starting point, I'm sure there are many others who contributed to this too.