Natural Design

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Natural Design is an area of Aesthetics which which investigates and analyzes design found in Nature, particularly recurring design such as the similarities between the Solar System and the Atom, the ripples in sand and those in clouds, as well as the distribution channels of a water tributary and our body's circulatory and nervous systems.

"Natural Design" is also an approach to psychology and biology that holds that concepts such as "motivation", "emotion", "inner feeling", "development", "adaptation" refer not to down-reductive explanations of things but to up- reductive descriptions of patterns of which those things are part. It has its roots in philosophical behaviorism and the New Realism. Cf, also, teleonomy, descriptive mentalism.

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