Really confuses me that our species has this desire to hang on to some childish notions of life, consciousness, and the "soul".

People who do this actually limit their window to the real beauty of existence. People can believe what they like but recycling existence over and again? How does it follow that people often have similar personality traits to their parents, who have similar personality traits to their parents, and back in a human regression?

How far back did this start happening? Do other apes also have this recycling personality thing going on? Is it all life, or are we humans really that special?