Robert Rosen’s relationalist understanding of biological states and quantum mechanics

Robert Rosen?s intriguing ideas of a formalized framework to understand biological systems have been discussed across the life and cognitive sciences. Yet his crude account of physical states, quantum states in particular, seems to be irreconcilable with his account of biological states, thus preventing a pursuit of his framework as a general ontological account. A more subtle understanding of quantum states, however, leaves room for a relationalist understanding of physical states in general agreement with Rosen?s framework of biological states.