would you say that “we have qualia” is just a strong intuition imbued in us by the mathematical process of evolution, and your “realist” position is that you choose to accept {referring to it as if it is real} as a good way of communicating about that imbued intuition/process?
I wouldn’t say that about qualia and I wouldn’t say that about free will. What you described sounds like being only a nominal realist.
This is going into details, but I think there is a difference between semantic realism and nominal realism. Semantic realist would say that based on a reasonable definition of a term, the term is real. Most if not all realists are semantic realists. Almost nobody would an apple realist if the reasonable definition of apple would be something like “fruit that turns you into the unicorn”.
Whereas nominal realist is someone who would say that based on a reasonable definition of a term, the term probably isn’t real, but it’s a useful communication tool, so they are going to keep using it.
Using an analogy (specifically for free will), I would say that free will is as real as consent, whereas I would imagine that a nominal realist would say that free will is as real as karma.
I will also reply to the edit here.
I wouldn’t say that about qualia and I wouldn’t say that about free will. What you described sounds like being only a nominal realist.
This is going into details, but I think there is a difference between semantic realism and nominal realism. Semantic realist would say that based on a reasonable definition of a term, the term is real. Most if not all realists are semantic realists. Almost nobody would an apple realist if the reasonable definition of apple would be something like “fruit that turns you into the unicorn”.
Whereas nominal realist is someone who would say that based on a reasonable definition of a term, the term probably isn’t real, but it’s a useful communication tool, so they are going to keep using it.
Using an analogy (specifically for free will), I would say that free will is as real as consent, whereas I would imagine that a nominal realist would say that free will is as real as karma.