Our ideas around life-extension are dated: The brain in a vat. Cryogenically frozen billionaires. Uploading our brain via USB-C to a Ray Kurzweil server. Nano-bugs that live in our veins to regenerate organs as we age. All these methods are concerned with preserving consciousness itself. It frames perception as a gift and death as a tragedy. It's paranoid. Instead of fighting the inevitable, what if we created a synthetic version of our mind that could extend forever into the future and engage with every emerging generation?