 In fact, by taking the configuration seriously in Bohmian mechanics, one perhaps arrives even more naturally than in standard quantum mechanics at the classification of fundamental quantum particles as bosons and fermions, with wave functions of the appropriate symmetries. That’s because the natural configuration space for a system of \(N\) particles, say electrons, described by the same dynamical parameters such as charge, consists of \(N\)-point subsets of physical space, and not \(N\)-tuples of points in physical space. It is natural, in other words, to regard the labelling we assign to particles as an unphysical convenience, and to use on the fundamental level unlabelled configurations rather than labelled ones. Wave functions on this natural configuration space are in effect symmetric, trivially so.