[Cryptography] The Voynich Manuscript as a product of a mental health disorder

[Ben McGinnes]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:37:07AM +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> The Voynich Manuscript has attracted interest almost entirely from
> cryptographically-inclined people (alongside historians) who are by nature
> inclined to try and interpret it as some form of cipher or code, because they
> want to see a cipher or code there.  I recently tried a different approach, I
> showed it to a psychologist and asked "which type of mental health disorder
> could the creator of this work have?".
> 
> The first response was that it was created by a functional schizophrenic, a
> disorder that developed over time where they were seen as deeply spiritual by
> others (perhaps in a monastery) and their work was encouraged.

That's a very sound theory and now my second favourite.  Though it is
more likely to be correct than my favourite theory, I still just
thoroughly enjoy this one:

    https://xkcd.com/593/


Regards,
Ben
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