Bio-psychognosis (ΨΓβ) differs from basic Psychognosis (ΨΓ) in that actual biological effects occur. To put it one way, "It's not just all in the mind". There is a difference between a subject thinking that they feel heat, and the subject's mind believing that the heat is real and thus their skin actually burns. A scientist with an infrared detector wouldn't see the heat being transmitted, just seeing that the tissue was burning.