Bifolia created using previous as reference

[tavie]

In my presentation at Voynich Day 2025, I tried to argue that "agnostic research" is not only unlikely to lead anywhere, but it is actually impossible -- in any field, including the VMS.  Any research attempt must make some assumptions about the origin and nature of the manuscript.  If the assumptions are not explicit, they are implicit in the kind of analysis.  

For instance, much of the research done over the last 100 years assumed, explicitly or implicitly, that it was either an European language in cipher or gibberish; which both implied the "Brain to Vellum" theory -- that the Author himself wrote directly on the vellum as he was encoding the text or running the blabber algorithm.  Which also implied that the text had practically no errors, and that the line breaks were chosen by the Author who knew the meaning of the text or the blabborithm, etc. 

This is controversial and risks the thread getting off topic.  Can I ask that anyone who wants to come back on these points create a new thread, please?