I just started reading Dune (despite reading a ton in general) and that tracks with the way the BGs use the term "humans".
That said, seems like a lot of extra work to do when you can just run some MSM articles that prompt the NPCs to bleat about how cool they are for not being able to actually formulate thoughts.
Sooooo. They never read the study about inner voices. This is what they think is normal. Notice it cites reddit threads. There have been many.
https://www.iflscience.com/people-with-no-internal-monologue-explain-what-its-like-in-their-head-57739
This still blows my mind. NPCs are a danger to real humans and need to be eliminated IMO.
This is the purpose of the Gom Jabbar test.
I just started reading Dune (despite reading a ton in general) and that tracks with the way the BGs use the term "humans".
That said, seems like a lot of extra work to do when you can just run some MSM articles that prompt the NPCs to bleat about how cool they are for not being able to actually formulate thoughts.
Some of us have great instincts, but we were taught to ignore them because it was weird as a child. relearning how to listen is very difficult.
First three dune books are pretty solid.