"Butlerian jihad" meaning in English

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          "text": "“‘Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,’” Paul quoted.\n“Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible,” she said. “But what the O.C. Bible should've said is: ‘Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.’",
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          "text": "Dune holds up today, says writer Alastair Reynolds, when many science fiction novels of its era don’t, in part because [Frank] Herbert future-proofed it, by setting his story 20,000-odd years ahead, after the “Butlerian Jihad” has replaced intelligent machines with human minds.",
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