pilot wave

noun2

1. •
   A theoretical matter wave that guides the motion of point particles.

   • To do their job, the pilot waves must travel to the far slit and return in time to influence the electron's path depending on whether that slit is open. — 1999
2. •
   A wavefunction on some measurement of information that guides the consciousness or behavior of individual people.

   • Pilot waves and projections from the implicate order to the explicate order of sense-perceptible phenomena are inscrutable to our everyday consiousness, at least directly. — 1998