 However, Dewey finds these worries unfounded. A naturalist aesthetics, which fully recognizes “the continuity of the organs, needs and basic impulses of the human creature with his animal forebears”, does not imply a “necessary reduction of man to the level of brutes”. Rather only a naturalist approach can properly account for the nearly miraculous fact that something as complex and “marvelous” as art and aesthetic experience can emerge from the most basic units of life (AE: 28).