Need advice for testing of hypotheses related to the self-citation method

[ReneZ]

We don't care how the VM started, because if the first page(s) looked very different from what we see now, they ended up in the trash. Pseudo-problem solved.

Not solved but swept under the carpet (classical example)  

But never mind. 

Modern people who have a background in maths, engineering or software are trained to think in (or quickly recognise) systems and structures. I belong to this group and I think most protagonists here are.
In fact, most of the suggestions that are being made here clearly demonstrate this. We can see diagrams and flow charts without having to draw them.

When talking about anything that somehow involves recursion, this system thinking automatically forces me to worry about the initialisation. A description of the system without the initialisation is incomplete.

Using system / structure analysis is useful for analysing the text of the MS, but one has to be very careful when projecting this on the creators of the text. Some things could be conceivable, others not.

Even the agnostic approach that there was some unknown initialisation that ended up on a sheet of text that is no longer part of the MS has the problem that this is key tot the whole method. It cannot have been skipped. It set up the alphabet that was used (mostly) consistently over the entire text. 

I'll leave it at that  
If I am the only one thinking about it, so be it. 
Looking forward to any results of the analysis