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The philosophical aspects of Dune strongly imply a serious, real life belief that humanity either latently possesses or would "evolve" such superior capabilities if it weren't for computer technology eliminating the "need" for plot-magic brains, which I find really annoying.

No, you can't, because the Butlerian Jihad canonically took an extremely broad interpretation of that quote to include absolutely any machine capable of any form of 'thinking' and then enforced that interpretation with gratuitous amounts of mass murder. Mentats are only superior to computers...

This element of Dune always felt like an incredibly self-righteous "take that!" to the emerging importance of computer science in the era where the story was written.