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Theory	Citations	Notes
Jeremy Greer's healing touch is better then Linderman's.	None	+ Jeremy was able to kill with his ability, Linderman wans't. - Their abilities might not be the same, Jeremy's ability was named before all of the effects of his ability could be documented. • It also depends on what you mean by 'better'. On the one hand, Jeremy could both give and take life. On the other hand, Linderman had had decades to perfect his ability. Jeremy Greer's power was more versatile, but it is unknown if it was actually superior.
The ability negatively affects those who use it.	None	+ Ishi was dying for an unknown reason, and Linderman may have been aging prematurely. - Nothing suggests the ability affects its used negatively. Linderman had his ability for years, and was never even hinted having any sort of health problem or debilitation. Nothing suggests he aged too fast either. - Ishi could be sick due to carrying the Catalyst, it could have adverse effects in hosting it for a long time. • Ishi could be sick due to any natural reason. + Peter is currently experiencing negative health effects from constantly using this ability.
It's not possible to heal Tracy or someone else with freezing or water mimicry.	None	+ It's only possible to heal things if they live of have lived before, there is no life in water. - It may not be possible to heal Tracy when she is in water form, but when she is in human form (and alive), she can be healed. • Donald Essex was hurt with a chemical and dissolved. • The authors mentioned that the substance that water mimics become isn't actually water (that is, H2O). Thus, it might be some sort of bizarre organic life (like a giant amoeba).
Jeremy's power is not the same as Linderman's and Ishi's, it involves some sort of life force transfer.	None	+ Jeremy was able to do things Linderman and Ishi never demonstrated, even though they had their abilities much longer. - He may have just had a very powerful form of healing touch. • It has never been indicated that there are more powerful versions of the same ability. + Peter becomes exhausted when using this ability. That might be because he was transferring his own "life force" from himself into his patients. - Over-use of any ability will eventually lead to exhaustion. If Peter was sacrificing his own life force, he would be prematurely aging and dying, not becoming fatigued. + Fatigue comes because his stamina is being depleted, he doesn't need to age to show that he is becoming weaker. Linderman healed lots of people in the war, and he was never even implied to get tired, nor did he age. + Since he is not altering his victim's ages with his ability, there is no reason as to why he would get older. • Vitality is a different concept then age. + There is a similar ability which involves transferal, but of age instead of life. - Jeremy himself never demonstrated any ill effect from using his ability. + Jeremy hardly ever healed someone in the dire conditions the people Peter rescued were. - If Jeremy's ability involved transferring life force, then absorbing his parents' life forces would have felt good. He would probably have become like Linda Tavara: amoral and addicted to his own ability. + Life force and auras are not necessarily the same thing. Taking it from someone doesn't mean it feels good. Linda felt that because she sort of fed on those auras. - The auras which Linda saw were those peoples' souls. Since they were also affected by illness and other external factors, it seems likely that a person's life force is linked to their soul. If absorbing someone's soul felt good, it seems likely that absorbing someone's life force would have a similar effect. • It is not known what life-force truly is, therefore it is impossible to tell what absorbing it would feel like. - Noah knows a lot about evolved humans. He also studied Jeremy for a long time. It seems unlikely that he would have missed something like that. + At the time Jeremy was taken in for testing, he hadn't manifested the killing part of his ability, or rather still had an emotional balance that translates in healing when he uses his ability. Noah said Jeremy later returned to an unstable home, emotional instability bringing out the harmful effects of his ability. + Noah is not omniscient. He was unaware that Jeremy could kill with his power so he could have been unaware of how his ability actually worked, among other things. - If Jeremy's ability involved life force transferral, then it seems likely that the 'taking' aspect would have manifested alongside the 'giving' aspect. + Not if different emotions and mindsets trigger different effects. - If this ability is actually 'life force transferal', then it seems unlikely that both halves of the ability would activate several years apart. + It's possible that Jeremy never felt violent or angry enough to subconsciously want to harm someone until his angsty adolescence. + Considering that both a company founder and the wife of a company founder had this ability for several decades, it seems unlikely that Noah would have been unaware that Jeremy could kill if they all had the same ability. + When describing a woman with the same ability as Jeremy, Noah stated that she could "control the flow of life". Linderman and Ishi's ability has always been described as healing, not controlling the flow of life.