mentat
A mentat is a profession or discipline in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. Mentats are humans trained to mimic computers: human minds developed to staggering heights of cognitive and analytical ability. Mentats serve as the replacement for the computers, or "the thinking machines", which were banned in the war against the machines known as the Butlerian Jihad.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Literature
- Category: Fiction
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