Consensus, the

From the SL4 Lexicon:

Consensus, the:

The Consensus is the world of shared perceptions that humanity inhabits. Things in the Consensus aren't really really real, but they usually correspond tightly to reality - enough to make the rules about what you can and can't say just as strict. What distinguishes the Consensus from actual reality is that there is no a priori reason why things should be formalizable, philosophically coherent, or unambiguous Yudkowsky01. Non-Speculative. See also objective reality, Veil of Maya.