20-09-2024, 08:10 AM
I don't think it can be read like a regular text (so a substitution code or something like it). But there may be meaning in there.
When I interviewed Benedek Lang about the Rohonc Codex some months ago, we also briefly talked about the Voynich. (He wrote a book about medieval ciphers and struck me as intelligent and knowledgeable on the subject). He said:
* It's unlikely that the Voynich is a cipher
* It's unlikely to be meaningless
So well, at this point it's really hard to say. Maybe it's nonsense filler text. Maybe at one point it had meaning to someone, but that meaning is impossible for us to retrieve. Maybe it's full of meaning, hidden by an elegant system, but we have been looking in the wrong direction.
To me it feels like between the familiar grounds of "cipher" and "nonsense", there is some kind of uncanny valley that we don't know yet how to navigate. I know the solution in not on the cipher side, and complete absence of meaning is hard to prove. So we'll have to see what's in the valley.
When I interviewed Benedek Lang about the Rohonc Codex some months ago, we also briefly talked about the Voynich. (He wrote a book about medieval ciphers and struck me as intelligent and knowledgeable on the subject). He said:
* It's unlikely that the Voynich is a cipher
* It's unlikely to be meaningless
So well, at this point it's really hard to say. Maybe it's nonsense filler text. Maybe at one point it had meaning to someone, but that meaning is impossible for us to retrieve. Maybe it's full of meaning, hidden by an elegant system, but we have been looking in the wrong direction.
To me it feels like between the familiar grounds of "cipher" and "nonsense", there is some kind of uncanny valley that we don't know yet how to navigate. I know the solution in not on the cipher side, and complete absence of meaning is hard to prove. So we'll have to see what's in the valley.


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