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And I in turn think the additional historical perspective is valuable. Yes, the issue of free will was once a matter of an alternative to "outside" forces, and is now a matter of an alternative to "inside" forces as well (see discussion of those threads coming together in 1971). And one can think of them as "constraints," perhaps indeed "clashing" ones. But perhaps one can also think of them as providing opportunities? being the building blocks from which one creates new and distinctive ways of being human? Conflict as a good thing rather than a bad one? The task being to prevent it from become paralyzing?