So you’re talking about the order or regularity of events due to their causal relations. We’re pattern detectors but also pattern imposers. We see patterns that aren’t really there, because we’re adapted to imagine alternative (including ideal) ones. We look at the clouds and see faces and animal shapes.

Instead of speaking of meanings as being inherent in nature, we should distinguish between the objective physical order which is meaningless (absurd) and amoral, and the subjective meanings (purposes and values) we imagine or take as our ideals to motivate our transformation of the given order into a humanized, artificial one.

Mind you, I’ve also argued for the objectivity of aesthetic meanings in nature, which leads to a pantheistic type of mysticism.

http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.ca/2013/11/life-as-art-morality-and-natures.html