Atreya Ṛṣi: Prabhupāda, is it possible that man could ever make even a one-celled living being?
Prabhupāda: Even if he makes, what is credit there? Cells are already there. What is the question of making?
Śyāmasundara: All they're doing is creating the conditions for the jīva to enter, actually. Isn't it?
Prabhupāda: Whatever their proposal, these things are already there. So even they can create something, xerox copy, what is the credit?
Śyāmasundara: But then they'll have control over it. That's their...
Prabhupāda: No, no control, because you are beginning from something on which you have no control. So where is your control?
Śyāmasundara: "From now on I am the master. I can create more Einsteins. I can create many Einsteins."
Prabhupāda: But first of all keep Einstein living. Why he is dying?
Śyāmasundara: That's on their program too.
Prabhupāda: That's on their program—that is is another foolish thing.
Śyāmasundara: Postponement of death by at least fifty years...
Prabhupāda: So what is the profit? After fifty years he has to die. Stop, stop death, then that is credit.
Śyāmasundara: They say they will be able to take out someone like Einstein's brain when his body dies and keep it alive, a disembodied brain, and use it like a computer.
Prabhupāda: All right. Whatever. (sounding disgusted) No. All rascals, fools. As if in the brain there is the thing. What is this brain? It is a material substance, what is there, lump of matter.