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"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." "
by apocalypstyx 8y ago
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
" 'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,' " Paul quoted.
"Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said. "But what the O.C. Bible should've said is: 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.'
- sgt101 8y agoOddly, prescient.
- lifeisstillgood 8y agoThe Dune trilogy / quadrilogy whatever yes?
- apocalypstyx 8y agoIt's actually a hexalogy, but, yes.
- mr_toad 8y agoThe prescription against thinking machines, along with similar plot devices (shields promoting hand-to-hand combat, the defacto ban on atomic weapons) allowed FH to construct a quasi-medieval SF setting. I wouldn’t take mystical pronouncements in fictional settings intended to advance a plot too seriously.