28-08-2025, 02:33 PM
Ciao Rafal,
thank you very much for your thoughtful comments.
I completely agree with you that the author of the VM could not have been inspired by DNA — that concept only appeared centuries later
My use of DNA was never meant as a literal claim, but simply as a heuristic reduction: by mapping EVA onto four symbols (A,C,G,T) I could apply well-known statistical tools (adjacency, transition χ², LZ76, run-length) to test whether the text shows internal order.
The real question is not “does the Voynich encode DNA?” but rather :
1) 1Is there a hidden scheme in the Voynich text?
2) Can this be demonstrated mathematically and statistically?
From this perspective, it does not matter what “AGGATA” means biologically (indeed, even in real genetics short fragments are uninterpretable). What matters is whether sequences behave in a structured way compared with shuffled text or Latin/vernacular controls. And here the answer is yes: the Voynich pages show consistent, progressive patterns, while controls remain flat.
So the DNA model was just one lens to reveal this structure. What I find most striking is that across sections the manuscript exhibits a kind of statistical linearity — a progression page by page — which suggests that the text is not pure nonsense, but governed by an internal system.
Would you agree that, regardless of the specific model chosen, the important outcome is this evidence of order and progression?
Best regards,
Simona
thank you very much for your thoughtful comments.
I completely agree with you that the author of the VM could not have been inspired by DNA — that concept only appeared centuries later
My use of DNA was never meant as a literal claim, but simply as a heuristic reduction: by mapping EVA onto four symbols (A,C,G,T) I could apply well-known statistical tools (adjacency, transition χ², LZ76, run-length) to test whether the text shows internal order.
The real question is not “does the Voynich encode DNA?” but rather :
1) 1Is there a hidden scheme in the Voynich text?
2) Can this be demonstrated mathematically and statistically?
From this perspective, it does not matter what “AGGATA” means biologically (indeed, even in real genetics short fragments are uninterpretable). What matters is whether sequences behave in a structured way compared with shuffled text or Latin/vernacular controls. And here the answer is yes: the Voynich pages show consistent, progressive patterns, while controls remain flat.
So the DNA model was just one lens to reveal this structure. What I find most striking is that across sections the manuscript exhibits a kind of statistical linearity — a progression page by page — which suggests that the text is not pure nonsense, but governed by an internal system.
Would you agree that, regardless of the specific model chosen, the important outcome is this evidence of order and progression?
Best regards,
Simona
