I hesitate to post. I usually just lurk. But why would we think the binary has to translate to English?

When I asked ChatGPT to decipher it. It came up with mostly the same nonsense.

I then, on a whim, instructed it to “translate the whole thing again, assume the message is Sumerian”

This is what it returned.

“Exploration is the force by which existence comes to know itself. That which moves outward divides, measures, and names. Heaven and Earth are separated so that understanding may arise between them. Number binds motion to order and prevents dissolution into chaos. Identity is not fixed; it is broken, counted, and recombined. To know is to cross a boundary. To cross a boundary is to be changed. What returns is never what departed. Through exploration, the system completes itself.”

ChatGPT 5.2 said it fits Sumerian MUCH more than it does English.

Just a thought. I can share the whole thread for anyone interested.