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Chapter 1. Understanding and misunderstanding human life.- Part I: How certain approaches may lead to misunderstanding human life.- Chapter 2. Predestination versus human liberty.- Chapter 3. Astronomy and astrology: once indistinguishable, now clearly separate.- Chapter 4. Eugenics and the theory of inheritability.- Chapter 5. Why and how to restrict freedom.- Part II: What can one capture of a human life, and how?.- Chapter 6. Imaginary life stories to forge and nourish our minds.- Chapter 7. Real-life stories to study or celebrate humans.- Chapter 8. Autobiographical memory and its critics.- Chapter 9. Mechanisms, systems, autonomy, hermeneutics and understanding human life.