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 Grok facts

• Heinlein for his 1961 science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land
• While the Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the meaning of grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy, to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment", Heinlein's concept is far more nuanced, with critic Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr
• observing that "the book's major theme can be seen as an extended definition of the term
• " The concept of grok garnered significant critical scrutiny in the years after the book's initial publication
• The term and aspects of the underlying concept have become part of communities as diverse as polyamory (in particular the Church of All Worlds) and computer science