Humans are by nature social, remove the authority figures and after the initial panic. Tribes will form…from tribes bigger clans, it will not be pretty. Some will lose, some will win…this is not a good route to take.
Consensus is really a function of group size.
I was in a group, there were 8 members we went back an forth for months to try come to decisions, it was not a great time and nothing was achieved.
Consensus is probably possible in groups of around 4-5
I scrolled down and found another copy of the same book without the notice…but it was a little weird to come across this