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Re: Basic Question


  • Subject: Re: Basic Question
  • From: Philip Ershler <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 14:22:24 -0600

On May 9, 2012, at 2:12 PM, H. Miersch wrote:

>
> On 9. May 2012, at 17:58, koko wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 9, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
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>>> or otherwise in the responder chain
>>
>> I grok that ... thanks.
>
> what does "grok" mean?
>

To grok is to intimately and completely share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity. Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land. In Heinlein's view, grokking is the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed.

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