TY - BOOK AU - Balakrishnan,Janaki AU - Sreekantan,B.V. TI - Nature's longest threads: new frontiers in the mathematics and physics of information in biology SN - 9789814612463 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - QC174.17.M35 N38 2014 U1 - 570.1/154 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New Jersey PB - World Scientific KW - Quantum theory KW - Mathematics KW - Biological systems KW - Measurement KW - Information theory in biology N1 - 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 ER -