Flesh and Machines (Brooks, 2002)

Rodney Brooks's 2002 popular-science book (Vintage Books; published in the UK as Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines), p.168 of which is alleged — via Hubert Dreyfus's own 2007 footnote — to credit Dreyfus with being right about body-world coupling. Across two sessions and eleven distinct digital-access routes, the vault has not managed to read that page directly: the book sits behind a structural access wall (Internet Archive lending restriction, Google Books preview limits, paywalled PDF mirrors). It anchors the 2002 leg of the three-episode Brooks–Dreyfus engagement thread and is the unresolved center of the vault's oldest open quote-verification question.

References

• claim-brooks-2002-book-credits-dreyfus-per-dreyfus-2007-quote
• claim-brooks-2002-book-access-barrier-structural-not-search-gap
• claim-google-books-zero-match-dreyfus-flesh-and-machines-inconclusive
• claim-brooks-dreyfus-engagement-outside-iwr-runs-toward-rebuttal
• Captures: 2026-07-13-does-any-secondary-source-document-an-acknowledged-brooksdreyfus, 2026-07-16-does-brookss-flesh-and-machines-2002-p168-actually