Yes but the change is not permanent. It dies with you.
All you would need is for the change not to be passed on to the next generation and all that progress is lost.
We currently spend decades passing on that knowledge to each child.
If that ever stops, the progress disappears in one generation.
Jamie@jamie.moe 6 months ago
Accumulated knowledge in our society really is frail. Take a computer mouse, tons of people are involved in making them, they’re considered extremely simple tools. Yet not one person on the planet could go out into nature, get the natural resources required, and without help turn those resources into a working computer mouse.