Structuralism and structural representation

Most AI critique leans on Dreyfus's embodied cognition argument — the claim that intelligence requires a body situated in the world. Chirimuuta's contribution is to trace the problem further back, to the structuralist movement in science and philosophy at the turn of the twentieth century, when the idea that minds (and machines) represent the world by mirroring relational structures first took shape. Cassirer crystallises this tradition; Heidegger's quarrel with Cassirer over Kant's sensory intuition opens a different, less-travelled path of critique. For product people building systems that claim to 'understand' or 'represent' the world, this paper clarifies what that claim actually inherits — and what philosophical weight it must bear. It fills a gap the library has: deep historical philosophy of AI that goes beyond the standard phenomenological objections.