Abstract
“Wonder en is gheen wonder!” was Bruges-born polymath Simon Stevin’s maxim (in late-medieval Dutch). He claimed that all happenings, however wondrous, complex or inconceivable at first view, eventually can be explained merely in terms of scientific interaction laws, although these laws are not all known or even accessible to us. In line with Stevin's view it is argued that any apparent aim that is perceived in mindless laws or in the action that results from them is indeed just that, an aim-oriented perception.
Arno Keppens