Where is the information stored?

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What is the property of something that makes it an emergent thing?

Hmmm. I'm not sure about the official definition of "emergent". I say something is "emergent" if its state is completely specified by the state of something else. I suppose if the emergent system contains as much information as the non-emergent system, then you can switch their roles and imagine the originally non-emergent system as the emergent system? I'm sure quantum mechanics makes this more complicated (probability waves, etc.). Unfortunatley I didn't learn enough physics to be able to explore these ideas very rigorously.

A person in another forum told me about a physicist named Henry Stapp who believed that the mind somehow controls the collapse of probabilty waves into events:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Stapp

Many religions think that faith and belief are necessary for miracles and magic. In the gospels, Jesus can only heal people when they have faith. From what little I know of occult (through wikipedia as always ), there is also emphasis on belief (e.g. the law of attraction).