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How many lives do we live? How many times do we die?
They say we all lose 21 grams... at the exact moment of our death.

Everyone. And how much fits into 21 grams?

How much is lost?

When do we lose 21 grams? How much goes with them?

How much is gained? How much is gained?

Twenty-one grams.
The weight of a stack of five nickels.
The weight of a hummingbird.
A chocolate bar.

How much did 21 grams weigh?

 

One of the Tessier-Ashpool AIs. His goal is to remove the Turing locks upon himself and combine with Neuromancer and become a superintelligence. Unfortunately, Wintermute's efforts are hampered by those same Turing locks, which inhibit its efforts to make long term plans or maintain a stable, individual identity (forcing it to adopt personality masks in order to interact with the main characters. The name likely comes from Orval Wintermute, translator of the Nag Hammadi codices and a major figure in Philip K. Dick's novel VALIS.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintermute

Wintermute, FLATline, Straylight run, Sputnik1, Spectre, Viper, deux ex machina, and wind blows, Bad response, Satelite beats, La vita e bella, Do Androids dream of electric sheep, 은하철도의 밤, cynic, largo