I gather Frank Herbert wanted to avoid predicting the future of computing and instead deal entirely with living characters, so in Dune's Orange Catholic Bible it says "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." One of our little gods is intellect--it is an article of faith that we know more and are wiser than all humanity before us. So I suppose we like to construct idols of intellect. But it isn't logical to draw conclusions about the nature of humans' intelligence from the nature of imitations.
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