The Lymphater Formula

Can one—or can one not—artificially create a thinking being, an electronic brain? Can a person be grown in a laboratory aquarium? Can a modern person carry out purposeful evolution of the biological world and create completely new species of living beings, endowed with astonishing properties?
All of these are not idle questions. Attempts to answer them can be found not only in science fiction, but also in strictly scientific works. And if science, with its inherent caution, stubbornly moves forward toward the decisive “direct experimental proof,” then Lem’s hero runs ahead, sets up an experiment, and receives an immediate answer.