My doctoral thesis, The Way Out: Naturalising Art (for a New Mythology), is about reconnecting art with the ‘normative science’ of aesthetics.  The ancient Greeks understood “aesthetics” as a ‘practical science’, integrally linked to ethics and logic; a science for knowing how to choose between ‘goods’.  But Art’s association with these sciences changed when the idea of aesthetics was redefined in the 18th century to be only about perceiving.  Art then became merely theoretical and “useful” (rather than ‘purposeless’).  In the ‘artworld’ it inspired manipulation; it could be almost anything that made money and reputations from an upturned urinal, to a rousing popular song, or a banana duct-taped to a gallery wall.   It was reduced to ‘sensation’; anything agreeable or disagreeable.  Anything beautiful or ugly, or just imitating Nature.  Art’s theoretical “democratisation” completely severed it from ethics and logic.  Being now only about appearances, its power to nurture understanding of reality diminished - while remaining useful in creating alienation and disagreement.  Having worked for some time in that “artworld”, my hope is that this thesis stimulates discussion about reviving Art's real power to link humanity back with Nature through these ‘natural laws’ of reasoning.  To un-shackle artmaking from the entirely subjectivised world of ‘cultural and creative’ industrialisation, mass-production, specialisation, and professionalising, that’s left many thinking it has little to do with meaning.  That it’s only a ‘theory of beauty’ or sensation.  Real artmaking, however, is not just any 'cultural practice' - like hair-braiding, yodelling, or rap-dancing.  Nor just crafting or designing.  It’s about the higher pleasure and usefulness of merging beauty with truth.  Freeing it from its false tangled associations (in the 'general aesthetic') - to do its proper work - may therefore help repair the deeply divided world we have created, now headed for ecological collapse and posthumanism.  Turns out aesthetics is what drives ethics and logic.  And humanity has been mythologising an ersatz material world, because the skill of choosing properly, making good decisions, got lost in a very poor notion of “modernity”.