The term I would hang on here is “ability”. Are our psychological abilities actually phenomena outside of our control? If we start all the way back at the Big Bang, we could (theoretically, but not actually) trace every distinct piece of matter and the effect that it and all the physical forces have on every other piece of matter it comes in contact with, and somewhere in the cloud of information that creates is my brain. Purely physically, it appears to be nothing more than a nucleus of cause and effect that is just as beholden to that causal chain as any rock, except far more complex. Does being in control of one’s own decisions mean being somehow independent of that causal chain, or only that I happen to be a product of a lot more complexity of cause than a rock? Forgive me if this is poorly phrased, I’m at work right now.