![]() ![]() Herbert refers to the Jihad many times in the entire Dune series, but did not give much detail on how he imagined the actual conflict. Bible as "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." ![]() Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Jihad, Butlerian: (see also Great Revolt) - the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. ![]() In Terminology of the Imperium, the glossary of 1965's Dune, Frank Herbert provides the following definition: In the post-Herbert Dune canon, the immediate cause of the Jihad is the abortion of the healthy fetus of a Bene Gesserit, Jehanne Butler, by an AI. Herbert may have coined the name from 19th-century author Samuel Butler, who has the citizens of Erewhon enact a prohibition on machines newer than 270 years fearing that "it was the race of the intelligent machines and not the race of men which would be the next step in evolution.". This prohibition is a key influence on the nature of Herbert's fictional setting. ![]() Occurring over 10,000 years before the events chronicled in his 1965 novel Dune, this jihad leads to the outlawing of certain technologies, primarily " thinking machines", a collective term for computers and artificial intelligence of any kind. The Butlerian Jihad is an event in the back-story of Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe. For the novel which details its origins, see Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. This article is about an event in the extended Dune universe. ![]()
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