19-05-2026, 10:56 PM
(19-05-2026, 10:03 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Your proposed gibberish generation method is anything but simple. It is as complex as the Voynichese "language", with all its statistical and structural peculiarities.
Indeed Voynichese is as complex as Voynichese in the same way as English prose is as complex as English prose. However, the complexity of the output doesn't tell you about the complexity of the mechanism. A snowflake is complex — the mechanism that produces it (water molecules crystallizing) is simple. The VMS has complex statistical properties — the mechanism that produces them (copy a visible word and modify it) is as simple or as complex as human visual attention and human pattern recognition are. The structure emerges from the repetition of copying over 37,000 words, not from complex rules.
Anyway, the question isn't whether self-citation is complex — it's whether it can explain the complexity of the Voynich text and if it's simpler than the alternatives.