Wintermute
Proper noun
Meaning
Wintermute (plural Wintermutes)
A surname.
Examples
Wintermute was hive mind, decision maker, effecting change in the world outside. Neuromancer was personality. Neuromancer was immortality.
Ashpool intermittently awakes from his cryogenic death-sleep, and the child 3Jane perceives Wintermute as a ghost whispering in her ear.
Case and Molly steal the ROM and Dixie helps them complete their mission. ; Wintermute : One of the Tessier-Ashpool AIs.
Finally, Armitage becomes the shattered Corto again, but his newfound personality is short-lived, as he is killed when Wintermute ejects him through an airlock into space.
It is revealed that in the past, Wintermute had originally contacted Corto through a bedside computer during his convalescence, eventually convincing Corto that he was Armitage.
Later in the story, Wintermute takes on Deane's persona to talk to Case in the matrix.