Epicurus

^2 A notable exception is Epicurus, who sought to keep alive the concept of free will by assuming that the ‘atoms’ he hypothesized had occasional unpredictable ‘swerves’. It is remarkable how Epicurus’ speculation conceptually anticipates the Copenhagen interpreta- tion of quantum theory, which holds that chance is an inherent property of nature’s smallest elements. Laplace’s Demon – Bayesian Spectacles