Question Cyber/Technopath; Esper or Telepathy variant?

ESP are all alternate perception (extra sensory perception): anything that lets you 'sense' something that isn't sight with your eyes, sound with your ears, scent with your nose, taste with your tongue, or feel pressure/temperature with your 'skin'... is ESP. From a practical standpoint all 'psychic' abilities form from ESP of some sort. In order to read or project emotions, you typically have to be able to sense them. In order to communicate telepathically, you first have to have the ability to 'sense' the energy patterns of thought. In order to be able to manipulate machines or interact with code within computers, you first have to be able to read the energy patterns that make up the operation of those things.

So, on the surface level, all psychic abilities are variants or extensions of some form of ESP. From there, you have to determine 'where' the sense occurs... is it within the self? within the aura/mental sheath? or outside of the boundaries that define the person? And do you have the ability to alter what you sense?

Cyberpathy is not a sub-variant of telepathy. Why? Because the foundation sense is not the same. Telepathy relies on being able to discern thought constructs. Computers don't think. A cyberpath has to discern code flowing through memory registers, or busses, or in the CPU. Both senses have to be very fast to successfully interpret and alter what they are aware of... but they are working with distinctly different things.


Answer the question and give you the foundation for why?

No, they don't. That's just human rationalization trying to make sense of something that isn't understood. Whisper acts through nanites because Whisper had a significant exposure to nanite during her manifestation period. Merry functions at a code/TRON level because Merry was a very skilled and adapt hacker even before manifesting. These are interaction constructs just like other psychics use to integrate senses for which human beings do not have language or thought models... just as some telepaths 'hear' thoughts as voices, some 'see' them as visions/actions, others read the holographic sense record, and so forth. None of these are any more necessary than it is for Whisper to have nanites or for Merry to rely on an object that has code. They are simply ways that those individuals understand and make use of their abilities.

But consider... if a telepath can insert a thought into the mind of an individual... why would a cyberpath require some specific interface device to modify the operation of technology. And if a telepath can operate on either the answer to a simple yes/no question posed to a mind OR lift/remove the entire memory of a day's actions... why cannot a cyberpath alter anything from a single bit up to a major function/routine? The same principles are involved... the only differences are the 'sense' that is used to experience the energy/pattern involved... and the 'hand' that does the manipulation.

The same is true for most Psychic abilities.