 One interesting feature of the Huainanzi is its position on the role of humanity in completing (cheng 成) the cosmos, through such activity as measurement (ch.3), naming (ch. 1), and construction of customs (ch. 11). The Huainanzi focuses on the role of the human in both understanding the patterns inherent in nature, and also in shaping and completing things on the basis of these patterns. In comparison in particular with accounts of agency and free will emerging in philosophical contexts of the post-Abrahamic West, the Huainanzi, and Han philosophy in general, has a far easier time squaring human activity and that of the extra-human world.