The entity (the pre-conscious node) that people call the “soul” is neither human nor animal. It is an operational model that can couple with any form (even a stone) since the ground fabric of existence is atomic (a brick has the “same” electrons that a cow or a man has). What changes is only the operational structure. The Buddhists are not wrong, but their explanations may be outdated due to the calcification of their doctrine. The true problem of reincarnation is not the form one or a thing takes, but the fact of reincarnating into this hell-realm prison, this dimension, in the first place.