I think it's important to realize that you can, to varying degrees, "train" your unconscious and instinctual influences to the point that it can do more or less what you want.
Obviously this then raises "well, what made you do that training?" but basically this could continue to the basic idea that conscious thought is a biological development and therefore tainted and removed from pure free will.
I think that largely people have the ability to develop their brain so as to overcome or in the reverse, waste, most of the smaller "pre-programing", but not so much as to overcome huge cultural differences or biological issues.
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