Yet, XEX’s leader, , stood firm. "We didn’t invent this future," she declared. "We inherited a broken planet and a responsibility to fix it. The animals of 2050 aren’t just scientific marvels—they’re a warning and a promise." The Anemal Controversy One of XEX’s most polarizing projects was the Anemal Synapse , a neural network mapping the collective consciousness of extinct species. Using brain organoids and AI, they claimed to "interview" the memories of creatures like the dodo and the dodo. The Anemal (a portmanteau of "animal" and "anima," the soul in Jungian psychology) became a cultural phenomenon. People formed spiritual connections with these virtual beings, even as scientists debated whether such simulations were science or pseudoscience.