Yajnadevam presents his Indus script decipherment and AMA

00:00 Opening
01:35 Brief history of the Indus valley
08:42 Indus script timeline
19:40 The Indus script problem
22:50 Decipherment using cryptanalysis
31:49 Information Theory: Is every script decipherable?
33:49 Unicity distance and uniquely provable solution
37:00 Can I decipher a script as ANY language? (Phonotactics)
39:52 Is it an actual script? Which kind? Which language?
47:30 Direction of writing
49:34 Different signs vs variants of the same sign
53:58 Allographs and distinct signs
55:25 Numeric signs vs numbers
57:17 Deciphering signs one by one
1:00:58 What happens if a sign is incorrectly deciphered?
1:02:20 Why is the only correct decipherment?
1:05:39 Reconstructed sign names
1:06:05 Whole signs vs composite signs
1:08:27 Brahmi is standardized Indus script
1:09:09 Example inscriptions
1:10:48 Yajur Veda
1:11:40 Rig veda
1:13:02 Common Objections
1:14:10 IA Arrived in 1500 BCE?
1:19:54 Continuity of iconography
1:22:10 Horse and chariot objection
1:22:56 Multiple allographs per symbol
1:23:54 Genetics
1:28:12 IVC Symbols in the Steppes?
1:30:46 Other decipherments
1:32:39 Other fallacies
1:36:03 Steve's comments
1:44:45 Demo
1:58:05 Q&A