4 FEB 2008 Meta-data for J. VS Library deposit: 12-4-2008-02-04 This deposit contains the article proposing the new VM philosophy and suggests the new methods of VM research THE RESEARCH OF THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT: The new philosophy and new methods. by Jan. B. Hurych The article provides the discussion of general split among VM researchers for solving the text, namely into the group proclaiming the Vm is written in plain, natural language and those who suspect that some encoding was used as well. The new philosophy should incorporated however the learning process as well. Taht can be achieved by using of Neural Networks (NN) that could be trained for the task. Should they are found useful, they can replace the "manual" methods of one or even both groups and the solving process would be not only mechanized but optimized as well. jbh10.htm No pictures.