First, it is an operation. It is not a condition except in the sense that the condition is an operation, an activity. Exegesis via fiction is amenable, probably, for one reason because it gives this sense of action, which is usually missing in the formats of scholarly exegesis. So I like this idea of exegeting by fiction. First it is operation, not condition or a state.
Operation is female aspect.
Condition is male aspect. This is important to grasp. Next, in polytime, a character is doing one thing that an observer sees at one moment but also many other things that the same observer does not see at that moment. Seeing is inherently limiting, as cognition itself is. A character operating in polytime is aware of their operating in several fields while the ordinary observer is not.