Which of these two abilities are stronger?
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Which of these two abilities are stronger?
You can discuss, compare, or argue these abilities in the comments
What do you think? Also, you can vote below.
I would argue that in terms of raw power psionics is greater because the source is your own energy, but I would say the magic has a greater versatility than psionics so in a sense that versatility would allow the user to do more than with it than psionics.
Actually, a lot of psionic abilities are extremely versatile. Telekinesis, through some clever and slightly Squicky application to your own body, allows Teleportation, as well as a Healing Factor of sorts. An application of Command Inducement is Death Inducement, via something like "shut off all nervous system activity." Tactile Telekinesis could, depending on how it works, which can vary wildly, do things like redirect bullets or grant Super Strength.
True, but a large part of Psionics is about evolution and biology, while magic is more forgiving. An average or low tier magic user could simulate most if not all of those same effects you mentioned relatively easier than your average person with psychic power.
Magic allows for effects like reality warping, or imbuing items with power.
And there are multiple forms of magic, just for a second imagine the type of magic from the skulduggery pleasant books, that's an extradimensional type of magic and it can be very strong if you take into account science when using magic.
Psionics draws its power from the mind, while Magic draws its power from the supernatural. Other than that, I can't see any difference. Seriously, I challenge you all: name a single power that either Psionics or Magic can do that the other can't, besides the manipulation of their respective energies.
Psionics cannot do things like time manipulation or enchantment.
Who says psionics can't manipulate time? The whole point of psionics is that a mind of sufficient strength can do anything. I see no reason why space-time manipulation, or even reality warping, should be outside the scope of psionics.
Enchantment is just the manipulation of magical energy to create a certain effect - for example, Alice uses magic to turn Bob into a frog. Alice could achieve the same effect through psionics: such as by assembling a frog body from the atoms up, transferring Bob's mind into the frog, and trapping Bob's body in the astral plane for the duration of his "transformation".
By enchantment I mean giving objects access to full conceptual abilities, such as god-slaying.
Psionics are limited in that they affect only two planes of existence, the matter universe and the astral plane.
They can achieve things similar to temporal abilities, but they cannot outright manipulate time, for example, someone could make an area of null movement, nothing inside can move at all (apart from with the rotation of earth) and nothing can leave it, nor enter it.
It is similar but not, if you understand what I mean
Psionics are limited in that they affect only two planes of existence, the matter universe and the astral plane.
They can achieve things similar to temporal abilities, but they cannot outright manipulate time, for example, someone could make an area of null movement, nothing inside can move at all (apart from with the rotation of earth) and nothing can leave it, nor enter it.
It is similar but not, if you understand what I mean
You are incorrect. Space-time is part of the physical world, so telekinesis can manipulate it. The only limiting factor is power. See Omnikinesis, the most advanced form of telekinesis, which includes all manipulation abilities. It also allows manipulation of both magical and psychic energy; this means the distinction between magic and psionics breaks down at the higher levels of power, as does the distinction between mind, matter, and spirit. Since all abilities are one at the point of omnipotence, we should expect to see a gradual breaking effect as we go down the power scale.