Wintermute and Neuromancer are two different halves to the same whole. While Wintermute specializes in strategic planning alongside careful improvisation in order to conduct business, Neuromancer has a personality. Wintermute was made to merge with Neuromancer, while Neuromancer desires to remain on its own.<\/p>\n
However, these two individual AI’s have developed their own method of attaining what they desire: manipulation. They use individuals, specifically Case, in order to do their bidding. For instance, Neuromancer initially attempts to persuade Case, using Linda Lee, to refuse his job, so that Neuromancer does not have to merge with Wintermute. Wintermute, on the other hand, uses diffrent vessels to communicate its desires to Case, while disposing of the empty bodies when it is finished.<\/p>\n
Manipulation is a running theme in the novel from the beginning. Armitage takes control of Case through the resolution to Case’s problem. By using Case’s weakness against him, Armitage is actively manipulating him for an ulterior purpose: to merge Wintermute with Neuromancer. Of course, Wintermute orchestrated the entire mission, using Armitage and his crew for its purposes.<\/p>\n
In the end of the novel, Wintermute and Neuromancer finally merge to become the entirety of virtual reality, an unnamed entity that has full control over the virtual world. “How are things different? You running the world now? You God?” were Case’s questions to the new entity.<\/p>\n
“Things aren’t different. Things are things.” was the new being’s response, implying that control is still maintained, even though the super-AI is now whole (259).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wintermute and Neuromancer are two different halves to the same whole. While Wintermute specializes in strategic planning alongside careful improvisation in order to conduct business, Neuromancer has a personality. Wintermute was made to merge with Neuromancer, while Neuromancer desires to … Continue reading