Subhash Kak

This book stems from a concept that, from an information-theoretic and computational perspective, e-dimensionality represents optimal information representation. Drawing on the principle that nature consistently chooses optimal solutions, this book demonstrates that noninteger dimensionality provides a unifying framework for understanding diverse phenomena across physics, biology, engineering, and data science. The work explores how optimal information representation naturally leads to scale-invariance and self-similarity—characteristics observed throughout natural systems from fractals and genetic structures to evolutionary processes and neural networks. Key Features: • Reveals why three-way logic is superior to binary logic in natural systems and provides an information-theoretic rationale for the power laws frequently encountered across scientific applications • Explains fundamental biological mysteries including the non-uniform groupings of codons in the genetic code (ranging from 1 to 6 per amino acid) and offers novel insights into chromatin geometry and evolutionary dynamics • Addresses the reproducibility crisis in biomedical research by proposing new significance testing approaches based on noninteger dimensionality that move beyond traditional binary hypothesis testing methods Written for researchers and graduate students in electrical engineering, computer science, physics, and biology, this work serves as both an advanced textbook for senior-level and graduate courses and a research resource providing fresh perspectives on longstanding problems across multiple disciplines.

Whispers from the Past is an overture to the history and culture of classical Kashmir, which for over a thousand years was one of the most creative places in the world. Through the book, the author hopes to acquaint the reader with Kashmir's contributions to art and aesthetics, including drama, music, painting, sculpture, sciences, yoga, tantra, literature, and philosophy. The region's culture was premised on the idea that universal consciousness binds humanity together, and knowing this at the individual's level is fundamental to self-understanding and for creative growth. Classical Kashmiri artists appreciated great art not merely from its inherent cleverness points of view but for its capacity to inspire audiences to the source of creativity itself, and this entailed devotion to excellence and a robust tradition of criticism. The book explores the currents of intellectual life and the lives of prominent royals, writers, and sages, showing how Kashmiri scholars and travellers came to influence not only southern regions but also far-away lands beyond the Himalayas. It showcases Kashmir's famed storytelling tradition through abridged tales from the Panchatantra, Kathā-sarit-sāgara, and Yoga Vāsiṣṭha, the last of which is arguably the greatest book of imagination and wisdom ever written on the conundrums of consciousness with unequalled clarity. Kashmiri aesthetics and the search for meaning in life resonate with modern sensibility

Matter and Mind is a new translation of the nearly 2,500-year old Vaisheshika Sutra of Kanada together with an introductory essay and a commentary. The Vaisheshika Sutra is one of the most important texts in the history of science that has not received the attention it deserves. It presents an ontology of reality that includes four kinds of fundamental atoms, two of which have mass and two that do not, as well as minds and consciousness. It also presents symmetry principles that it uses to infer properties of the basic atoms. Kanada's laws of motion are nearly identical to those of Newton.

This is the third edition of the classic book The Nature of Physical Reality that presents current knowledge of physics and highlights significant Indian contributions to the subject. The book is as much about what is known as about what remains to be known and it speaks of a variety of paradoxes of mathematics and physics. It argues that there is a hidden order in physical reality that transcends the capacity of rational models and suggests that new research has the potential to illuminate the mystery of consciousness.

Mind and Self is a new translation and commentary on Patanjali's Yoga Sutra framed by new findings from neuroscience and physics that throw light on the counterintuitive workings of the mind. It brings in evidence from other early Yoga classics such as the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Vasistha, and Tantra to place the text in context and explain some of its most esoteric ideas.