Sandworms of Dune - Entry #16

     Back in the "cathedral", Duncan was mind-melding with Erasmus so that he would have control over the machines and then would help guide the new future where humans and thinking machines do not oppose each other.  It is also the beginning of the scene where we really get to see what Erasmus had been looking for all along, why he studied humans for so long.

     Duncan knew this was the point of no return.  Do it.     The mental floodgates opened, filling his mind to bursting with the robot's experiences and coldly factual, regimented information.  And he began to see things from that entirely alien viewpoint.
     In thousands upon thousands of years of experimentation, Erasmus had struggled to understand humans.  How could they remain so mysterious?  The robot's incredible range of experiences made even Duncan's numerous lives seem insignificant.  Visions and memories roared around the Kwisatz Haderach, and he knew it would take him much more than another lifetime just to sift through it all.
     He saw Serena Butler in the flesh, along with her baby, and the startling reaction of the multitudes to what Erasmus had thought was a simple, meaningless death ... howling humans rising up in a fight they had no chance to win.  They were irrational, desperate, and in the end, victorious.  Incomprehensible.  Illogical.  And yet, they had achieved the impossible.
     For fifteen thousand years, Erasmus had longed to understand, but had lacked the fundamental revelation.  Duncan could feel the robot digging around inside him, looking for the secret, not out of any need for domination and conquest, but simply to know.

(Sandworms of Dune, p. 496)