North, south, east and west are essential notions in our lives to such an extent that we cannot do without them. However, how did they come into existence? Did the universe divide itself and declare the four directions? In fact, the universe itself is the universe not because it thinks that it is the universe but because we named it as such.
All things we know have their names, and by the names we can distinguish them from each other. But none of them produced their own names on their own independently. All the names were created by our imagination, which is the way a thing comes into existence. In other words, all the world is the fruit of imagination.
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