5/13/2023 0 Comments Neuromancer![]() ![]() (Afterthought: It seems fairly clear why Wintermute wants to merge: Neuromancer is Wintermute's "missing piece," the other lobe, the "personality" that will elevate Wintermute's powers to God-like proportions.) And Neuromancer's avatar, the young boy with Riviera's eyes, is spotted by Case some time later, so his essence wasn't completely obliterated by the process. The new entity formed by their merging is described, near the end of the book, as being unimaginably powerful, having subsumed the entire "Matrix". What I don't understand is why Neuromancer didn't want to merge with Wintermute. After he escapes, Case comes to suspect that Neuromancer had previously arranged several other incidents to foil Wintermute's plan. Neuromancer briefly traps Case in a virtual environment, in the hopes that Case will decide not to go through with the job. ![]() However, when Case finally comes face-to-face with Neuromancer, it's under duress. And we learn that Wintermute's ultimate goal has been to merge with another AI called Neuromancer. In William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, we come to learn that the final heist at Villa Straylight, and the events leading up to it, have largely been orchestrated by the artificial intelligence Wintermute. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |