14 chapters of the book are transcripts of the nightly dialogue programs of the television program “Gordon”. The themes of these programs are sometimes answers, but more often attempts to answer problems, riddles, questions that every now and then the waves of modern science and modern civilization throw onto the shores of our restless consciousness.1. Programming non-deterministic games2. Gravitational waves3. Communication in birds4. The emergence of the biosphere5. Wittgenstein and modern philosophy6. Proof in mathematics7. Superparamagnetism8. Neurobiological mechanisms of aggression9. Why philosophy?10. Photosynthesis and fluorescence11. Mathematics and Botany12. Universe and Man13. Judas: versions of betrayal14. Hypnosis and consciousness