Chronoceptual Learnability

Chronoception is the rate at which an actor perceives change per unit time (metabolically grounded, subjective but measurable); characteristic time is the rate at which its environment actually changes. Plotting one against the other gives five regions: time-averaging (environment far faster — electricity as blur) and timescale separation (far slower — geology as frozen) form a temporal filter that blocks interaction outright; aliasing and myopia are subtler distortions; between them lies the zone of learnability, where the rates align closely enough for accurate perception and responsive exchange, and which evolution selects for. The paper's central claim is that computation (capture, time-lapse, simulation) expands this zone rather than merely accelerating us — it brings alien timescales into perceptual range.