 It has been argued that, on the de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory and related pilot wave theories, the quantum state plays a role more similar to that of a law in classical mechanics; its role is to provide dynamics for the Bohmian corpuscles, which, according to the theory, compose ordinary objects. See Dürr, Goldstein, and Zanghì (1997),  Allori et al. (2008), Allori (2021).