[split] Did the VM go straight from cerebellum to vellum?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Looks like I keep forgetting the sequence of events here. Each time I think about this I find it absolutely improbable that no specifically oriental images or designs would have ended up in the manuscript if made this way, so I feel the need to fabricate some additional explanation for this, but we already had this discussion and to you there is nothing strange about this at all.

We can discuss the Chinese Origin Theory (and whether there are any "oriental images") elsewhere if you will.  But the point here is that the COT is completely independent of the The Scribe Was Not The Author Theory, as well as of the There Was A Draft Theory (and its opposite, the Brain To Vellum Theory).  Neither needs the other or is made significantly more likely or unlikely by the other.

And, again, the COT is also independent of the Massive Retracing Theory.


All the best, --stolfi