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>>16725994
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>Will we ever have real mentats?
yeah, well I don't know about calculating digits of pi, but literal children can do what thufer did in that scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_hvzYS3_Y

your brain too can do truly crazy mentat shit like this if you put in the effort. The only obstacle really is the same as for learning reading/writing and mathematics, stuff that isn't at all natural to the brain, so teaching yourself to do this kind of "thinking" is similarly excrutiating and most people don't like to learn it willingly.

The only barrier to overcome is tricking yourself into liking it or forcing yourself to suffer the banality of learning it. The trachtenberg mentat system was developed by some poor fucker in a nazi concentration camp.

>read two books at the same time
This is stupid.
>couldn't we do this on purpose by affecting the baby before birth
Easily. Infant brains are much more malleable and amenable to taking up functions of the lost hemisphere, if you were to split the brain at birth into two hemispheres, you are almost certain to develop two individuals in the same body, controlling the opposing halves. They could then read two books at the same time.
>wait no I meant one individual reading two books at the same time
This is STUPID. Mentats don't even do that in dune.