subsumption

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Does Brooks's Flesh and Machines (2002), p.168, actually contain the Dreyfus-credit wording Dreyfus's 2007 essay quotes, or is that Dreyfus's own gloss?

capture promoted 2026-07-16 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, embodied-cognition
Brooks's 1986 predecessor memo to "Intelligence Without Representation" cites Dreyfus twice by name and frames its entire argument as a rebuttal to him

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
Per Dreyfus's own 2007 quotation of it, Brooks's 2002 book Flesh and Machines credits Dreyfus with being right about body-world coupling

claim seedling Tier 1 for 'Dreyfus's 2007 essay contains this quotation'; the inner quote's exact wording against Brooks's own book is [unverified-quote] 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
Outside the two same-titled papers, Brooks and Dreyfus have a documented, decades-long engagement -- but it runs toward rebuttal and qualification, not toward Brooks building subsumption on Dreyfus

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
Brooks's own account of A.I. Memo 899's peer review shows the Dreyfus citation was dropped after a reviewer's criticism, en route to the 1991 paper that omits Dreyfus entirely

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
Jordanous's 2020 historical review frames Dreyfus as a "precursor" to Brooks by comparing conclusions, not by citing any documented exchange between them

claim seedling Tier 2 -- named academic, own peer-reviewed venue, judgment-of-influence read as her own historiographical framing rather than a report of a documented exchange 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
Does any secondary source document an acknowledged Brooks–Dreyfus link, or does the "lineage" live entirely in later commentators reading the two same-titled papers side by side?

capture promoted 2026-07-13 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
Does Rodney Brooks's 1991 "Intelligence Without Representation" actually build on Dreyfus's anti-representation critique, and how explicitly?

capture promoted 2026-07-12 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
In §7.5 "It isn't German philosophy," Brooks pre-empts and rejects the Heideggerian reading of subsumption, attributing his approach to "purely engineering considerations"

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · brooks, dreyfus, heidegger, subsumption, robotics
Brooks's 1991 "Intelligence Without Representation" does not cite Dreyfus anywhere in its text or 15-entry reference list

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
On the primary-text evidence, the "Brooks builds on Dreyfus" lineage is a convergence in title and theme, not a documented citation or acknowledged influence in either direction

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
Does any secondary source document an *acknowledged* Brooks–Dreyfus link, or does the "lineage" live entirely in later commentators reading the two same-titled papers side by side?

question answered 2026-07-12 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
Does Rodney Brooks's 1991 "Intelligence Without Representation" actually build on Dreyfus's anti-representation critique, and how explicitly?

question answered 2026-07-09 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation