philosophy

I don't hold this view, but it sounds like eliminativism or illusionism

it is something that cannot be defined… like … by definition. That seems like a poor explanatory tool, and it also seems like a non-falsifiable heuristic . I don’t think whether it is real or not means we lack free will, and honestly I think conflating the two is a pretty spurious claim. Qualia is a subjective “thing” that sort of implies a dualism, but does not actually imply free will. You are assuming that free will = subjective experience and I never implied that. The brain is incredibly complex and we don’t really have a consistent understanding of consciousness, so qualia may as well be called “ether” or “impetus” … Its just as likely that the mind itself is something like an incredibly complex set of biological state-machines and consciousness necessarily implies the relationship between that organism and the environment it is situated in. But none of that necessitates a superimposed “what its like” phenomenon that is a particular object that is simultaneously inexplicable and necessary for “being”