Every phenomenon has an identifiable cause.
This is a possible definition for the mathematical notion of
continuity.
It is experienced by an arbitrary user, and may apply to
unanticipated phenomena.
One simple requirement is that there are no holes, that nothing is missing.
Continuous communications cannot have as goal to stop communications, to silence the partner. It cannot thus be one way, and is thus necessarily based upon the argumentative function of language. One-way media (such as conferences) are inadequate to carry them.
Identification means first discrimination from the context, and
thus requires
fine granularity of representation.
One should be able to show that the rest of the context is shared
by other configurations in which the phenomenon does not occur.