Apparently there are at least two
churches of Wintermute. I spent some time looking on the
matrix and discovered:
"He passed her a paper napkin with W I N T E R M U T E
printed in red feltpen in his neat, laborious capitals.";
Pg. 73: "'Wintermute is the recognition code for an AI.
I've got the Turing Registry numbers. Artificial
intelligence.'" {This is the first appearance of the term
'Wintermute', after which the 'First Church of Wintermute'
is named.}
The Second Church of Wintermute
This page is at
www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/y2k/700/, and says:
"I'm not Wintermute anymore"
"So what are you?"
"I'm the matrix."
"You running the world now? You God?"