I'd guess at the continuum, too — "going against common sense" is, unfortunately, a thing I have seen often enough of true things to reach the conclusion that "common sense" as a phrase means only "inside the Overton window of the person who just said or wrote that".

But it's a guess, it has to be, especially as we're not all agreed on what the thing even is in the first place:

> About forty meanings attributed to the term consciousness can be identified and categorized based on functions and experiences. The prospects for reaching any single, agreed-upon, theory-independent definition of consciousness appear remote

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness#The_problem_of_d...