How To Be A Mentat?
Bill Christensen at www.technovelgy.com writes:
Mentats are described in Frank Herbert’s Dune as “a class of Imperial citizens trained for supreme accomplishments in logic - Human Computers.” They can survey astonishing quantities of information and perform analytical feats - all without computers.
(Thufir Hawat, Mentat to the Atreides)
Here is a basic outline of the Mentat “feature list:”
1. Extraordinary capacity for conscious information acquisition
2. Rapid computation skills
3. Near
