• TheEyeOfBrows
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      3 months ago

      Additionally, that dude is a human super computer (“mentat” in the fiction). In the movie, they chose to portray him doing hard math by having his eyes roll back in his head.

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          I don’t think that that’s true. Mentats themselves work alright without spice or that Sapho juice, though I think that both of these substances expand their abilities. It is Guild Navigators that are immersed in spice tanks for much of their lives.

          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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            3 months ago

            They get their powers literally from drinking a substance made with spice. It’s explained in the books, and it’s why their lips are stained red (something only the 1984 film actually showed on screen). The bene jesuit (the female witches; probably fucked the spelling up lol) also get powers from a spice-based beverage (the same one Paul consumes). Pretty much any expanded mind powers come directly from the spice, it’s just a matter of degree of how much they take.

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              No, their lips are stained by Sapho . The first mentats came about just after the Butlerian Jihad, before the discovery of Arrakis and spice.