Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mathematics in-forms physics and physics per-forms mathematics : comments / N. Kumar -- An incomplete summing up of quantum measurements / N.D. Hari Dass -- Predictive information for quantum bio-systems / Arun Kumar Pati -- Quantum effects in biological systems / Sisir Roy -- Instabilities in sensory processes / J. Balakrishnan -- Active cellular mechanics and information processing in the living cell / Madan Rao -- On the importance of length scales in determining the physics of biological systems / B. Ashok -- q-deformations and the dynamics of the larch bud-moth population cycles / Sudharsana V. Iyengar and J. Balakrishnan -- Newtonian chimpanzees? : a molecular dynamics approach to understanding decision-making by wild chimpanzees / Matthew Westley, Surajit Sen and Anindya Sinha -- Quantum probability : a new direction for modeling in cognitive science / Sisir Roy -- Knowledge, its hierarchy and its direction / Apoorva Patel -- Some remarks on numbers and their cognition / P.P. Divakaran -- Conceptual revolution of the 20th century leading to one grand unified concept : the quantum vacuum / B.V. Sreekantan -- Classical coherence, life and consciousness / Partha Ghose -- Consciousness : a verifiable prediction / N. Panchapakesan -- Gödel, Tarski, Turing and the conundrum of free will / Chetan S. Mandayam Nayakar and R. Srikanth -- Mathematics and cognition / Rajesh Kasturirangan.