---
title: "Flesh and Machines (Brooks, 2002)"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us"
aliases: ["Flesh and Machines","Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines (UK title)"]
first_seen: "2026-07-13T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Rodney Brooks","Hubert Dreyfus (embodiment credit)","subsumption architecture","embodied cognition","primary-source access barriers"]
---


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