Grok
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Grok is a word coined by Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, where it is defined as follows:
- Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines to grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy; to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment".
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See also
- Appropriation (sociology)
- Being-in-the-world, a term in the existentialist philosophy of Martin Heidegger, aimed at deconstructing the subject–object distinction
- Gestalt psychology
- Knowledge by acquaintance
- Knowledge by description
- Anschauung, a related "sense-perception" concept in Kantian philosophy
- Kything, a related transpersonal perception of essential beingness described in Madeleine L'Engle's novel A Wind in the Door
- Mark Sisson, author of "The Primal Blueprint", in which he uses a fictional character representation of a Paleolithic man named "Grok" to help illustrate the virtues and health benefits of following a Paleolithic lifestyle in the modern world
- Mysticism
- Phenomenology (psychology)
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