I can't link to Hutto and Myin directly, because it's a stupid book with access only via a paywall. But this criticism does a good job of presenting their view. The view, in a nutshell, is "cognition does not essentially involve content and admits explanations on a semantic level only as far as it is scaffolded with social and linguistic practices" because "serious philosophical problems with applying a semantic-level vocabulary of representations, models, and computations: it is troublesome to give a non-circular account of how content emerges in the natural world." Quite so. The discussion in this paper is pretty dense and detailed, but as I said, offers a good exploration of the issues, especially with respect to the relation between content, representations and neural networks.
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