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"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion." -- Lynch's Dune

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions
change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
-Mentat Handbook

It was a typical Mentat response: concentrate on the questions. Mentats
accumulated questions the way others accumulated answers. Questions created their own
patterns and systems. This produced the most important shapes. You looked at your
universe through self-created patterns- all composed of images, words, and labels
(everything temporary), all mingled in sensory impulses, that reflected off his internal
constructs the way light bounced from a bright surface.
-Chapterhouse: Dune

A Mentat's real skill lay in that mental construct they called "the great synthesis."
It required a patience that non-Mentats did not even imagine possible. Mentat schools
defined it as perseverance. You were a primitive tracker, able to read miniscule signs,
tiny disturbances in the environment, and follow where these led. At the same time, you
remained open to broad motions all around and within. This produced naivete, the basic
Mentat posture, akin to that of Truthsayers, but far more sweeping.
-Chapterhouse: Dune

"you are open to whatever the universe may do," a Mentat instructor once said. "Your
mind is not a computer; it is a response-tool keyed to whatever your senses display."
-Chapterhouse: Dune

Watch for consistent movements against your internal screen.
-Mentat instructor's temporary words for first

First law of Mentat: A process cannot be understood by stopping it.
Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
-Dune

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