[Blog Post] Was the Voynich text generated by using the self-citation-method?

[Emma May Smith]

The problem with an explanation which relies on the scribe being "aesthetically motivated" is that it effectively puts the process in a closed box we can't open. We can't judge aesthetics objectively, so will never know why [lk] is so much more pleasing than [lt], or just what bothered the scribe about [pe] and [fe], or why [ych] is pretty at the start of a line but ugly elsewhere...