"A Dynamic advance is meaningless until it can find some static pattern with which to protect itself from
degeneration ... Evolution can’t be a continuous forward movement. It must be a process of ratchet-like steps in which there
is a Dynamic movement forward up ... then, if the results look successful, a static latching-on of the gain that has been
made ... "
— Robert M. Pirsig,
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
Our Mission:
We are Ratchet Reps, a youth-led initiative dedicated to improving the quality, access and affordability of self-directed learning.
We believe that evolutionary traits emerge when a Dynamic pattern of Quality becomes Static — automatic.
That is why phenomena such as blinking or birds turning their heads are clearly "evolutionary": because they seem so robotic.
It follows that the term "evolution" can pragmatically stand for more,
such as the development of heavily myelinated neural pathways, which underpin:
- Learning
- Practice
- Repetition
- Neural Plasticity
- Skill Acquisition
- Procedural Memory
- Habit Loops
- Automaticity
- Muscle Memory
- Fine Motor Control
- Reaction Time
- Auditory Processing
- Visual Processing
- Neural Efficiency
- Information Transmission
- Retrieval Speed
- Cognitive Fluency
- Unconscious Competence
- Expert Performance
- Neurodevelopment
- Basal Ganglia Circuits
We strive to provide tools for our users so that every step they take, after sufficient intellectual understanding has been reached independently, is a step on the shortest path toward upward postnatal evolution.