 Given the general character of aesthetic experience, it is no surprise that Dewey attributes such high significance to it in his late naturalist philosophy. Aesthetic experience shows how complex and meaningful the experiences which emerge from the basic factors of all interaction—sense of direction, resistance, rhythm, accumulation—can be. Dewey’s aesthetic theory is naturalist precisely in the sense that even an experience as complex as aesthetic experience is seen as continuous with the interaction that he believes characterizes the relationship of even the simplest biological organisms to their environments. Similarly, art is only one of the many practices and areas of life which can be sources of aesthetic experience. Conversation, for example, is one such everyday activity, for it can exhibit the kind of “continuous interchange and blending” which Dewey thinks is essential to aesthetic experience (AE: 43).