We carry Reproduction ability through sex (imperfect reproduction being the most useful for evolution purposes), and we carry Newness (as a counterpart, not as opposed, of Reproduction) in our ability to use our brain and body for something other than reproductive sex (feel, think, learn, express, and so on).
Through Reproduction, we can only develop within a relatively narrow boundary. We can become this or that (short or tall, human or a snail), but hardly this and that at the same time; we cannot undo what has been done; and we always get extinct.
Through Newness we can manipulate, reflect, distort; become this and that (a scientist and a priest, human and snail); undo what has been done; and achieve some sort of permanence.
In this sense, Progress as “improvement” can only act upon Newness, given that in Reproduction many uncontrollable variables act upon it (the Uncertainty).
Under Newness there’s the opportunity for making plans, developing politics and ideologies, assessing the results, and finally re-establish new goals. Checking if Progress has met the expectations.
Under Reproduction there are no “improvements”, only higher levels of complexity, and increasing levels of redundancy.
Progress as “improvement” (under Newness) depends on simplifications, morals, or technologies: follows a path.
Progress as “complexity” (under Reproduction) denies every simplification, and is irrevocably independent: makes a path.
Until Newness meets Reproduction in genetics laboratories.
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