A Mentat is a human in Frank Herbert`s fictional Dune universe who has been specially trained to mimic the cognitive and analytical ability of electronic computers. == Overview == In Herbert`s fiction, following the defeat of the thinking machines by humanity in the Butlerian Jihad, it is forbidden to create sentient machines. The Mentat discipl.....
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[computing] Mentat is the name given to a macro-dataflow extension of the C++ programming language. It was developed at the University of Virginia computer science Department by a research group led by Andrew Grimshaw. The combination of the ideas needed to implement the Mentat run-time with the ideas in Carnegie Mellon University`s Hydra d...
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After AI were banned in the universe, humans trained themselves to become mentats, a profession that allows the brain to mimic computers. This is achieved by strict mental conditioning which turns the mind into something like a calculator, and also allows for storage of memories and information. Mentats are used by the Great Houses as political adv...
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A form of mental discipline that arose in the wake of the Butlerian Jihad. Following the rejection and destruction of thinking machines, a collective of individuals known as the Mentat were schooled in the arts of empathy and foresight, essentially becoming an organic alternative to artificial intelligence. There are Mentats shared between the Atre...
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