Humans are brought into the Universe knowing nothing but what informat...
Humans are brought into the Universe knowing nothing but what information our DNA has given us. Yet with that little knowledge deposited into us from birth, Humans are able of doing things that no other species on the entire Earth has been capable of doing. From harnessing fire for our benefit to sending a Human to the Moon just to say we did. Even in dark times, Human beings can always find a way. There is no force, no life form, no barrier that could stop Humanity from accomplishing anything we truly want to make a reality. Humanity, whether created by nature through impossible luck or engineered by 'god' like sentient beings, will forever be a force to reckon with throughout the seemingly infinite space of the Universe even after death. For death is not a means to an end for Humans, but rather a new beginning. Just as we are born naked of all knowledge our bodies, with their knowledge gained through life, is left behind to give way for a transmission. That transmission uses every last particle of energy residing in every single cell within the body. Such a high powered, complex and discrete transmission that it is simply a hypothesis still undiscovered by neurologists and others studying the Human brain. The energy is used to stream hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of terabytes outwards away from our physical dying bodies. What this information does after being transmitted or even where it goes is completely debatable, but what is for sure is that this information is us. It is who we are; Our consciousness. The brain, with infinite complexity, could be capable of this. Humanity still only knows very little about this important organ, even though it is what makes us function. Without the brain our bodies are useless and without the body our brains are useless. A symbiotic relationship. Therefore it is completely reasonable to imagine that the brain and body work together, in the last moment of life before death, in order to preserve the most important information of what makes you an individual Human. To answer why memories, if they are important to each individual, do not carry over in the event of reincarnation is solely because memories are physical. They are physical just as your body is physical and therefore cannot be transmitted outwards from the body. It is like how a computer cannot transmit the hard drive itself only information. The memory your brain stores is used to build a hard drive within it, where the information from memories relies on the hard drive to physically be there. Once the brain's memory is built it cannot be transmitted without moving the brain's hard drive to a new location.
In summary, Humans are unique not only because we are the only sentient species ever born on Earth, but for the fact that Humans as individuals are not destroyed by death. Instead Humans enjoy another plane of existence after the death of our physical bodies, what that existence could be is left to the imagination. Whatever lies waiting, every Human will eventually find out for themselves.