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

[Tomasz Rola]

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.  Less likely would be a paranoid
> schizophrenic who sees themselves as a witch and writes in a secret
> language so that no-one else can persecute them for it.  Another
> possibility is someone with serious bipolar disorder who, during a
> period of severe euphoria, thinks they're in direct touch with God
> and writes down visions from God, with God giving them a new
> language to record in the manuscript.
[...]

This is very interesting hypothesis, but I would like to see (or, I
wonder it there is) some kind of statistics: how often those kinds of
diseases result in producing a manual written in cryptic /
undecipherable language?

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Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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