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Grok is used in Autistic circles because Special Interests, Pattern Recognition, Hyper and Hypo senses, and other Neurodivergent traits and experiences can give an Autistic person profound insights that are experienced and known but nearly impossible to communicate effectively to others. | Grok is used in Autistic circles because Special Interests, Pattern Recognition, Hyper and Hypo senses, and other Neurodivergent traits and experiences can give an Autistic person profound insights that are experienced and known but nearly impossible to communicate effectively to others. | ||
When an Autistic person says they " | When an Autistic person says they "gork it" a way to interpret this is the Autistic person saying "I have profound understanding and intuition of the thing and I have supreme confidence in the accuracy of my opinion, but I won’t be able to explain this understanding without abundant effort and perhaps needing to educate the potential audience on various subjects" | ||
Grokking can also be used when the double empathy problem between the speaker and the listener is too great to convey the knowledge. | Grokking can also be used when the double empathy problem between the speaker and the listener is too great to convey the knowledge. | ||
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The | The Author Patrick Rothfuss introduces a similiar concept with "Naming" and the "Sleeping mind" and the "Waking mind" in his series the KingKiller Chronicle. | ||
“Each of us has two minds: a waking mind and a sleeping mind. Our waking mind is what thinks and talks and reasons. But the sleeping mind is more powerful. It sees deeply to the heart of things. It is the part of us that dreams. It remembers everything. It gives us intuition. Your waking mind does not understand the nature of names. Your sleeping mind does. It already knows many things that your waking mind does not.” | “Each of us has two minds: a waking mind and a sleeping mind. Our waking mind is what thinks and talks and reasons. But the sleeping mind is more powerful. It sees deeply to the heart of things. It is the part of us that dreams. It remembers everything. It gives us intuition. Your waking mind does not understand the nature of names. Your sleeping mind does. It already knows many things that your waking mind does not.” | ||
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In this analogy, you "grok" what your sleeping mind tells you but it would be difficult to convey it with your waking mind. | In this analogy, you "grok" what your sleeping mind tells you but it would be difficult to convey it with your waking mind. | ||
etymology: A neologism coined by Robert A. Heinlein in "Stranger in a Strange Land." | |||
