Obviously, you haven’t read The Moral Animal by Robert Wright.
You might find it thought provoking.
You may think of yourself as an animal if you so choose. I do not. I see you as a child of God and as spirit temporarily surrounded by flesh.
You may choose to believe that all thought is the result of chemical-electrical processes and that all of existence is no more than a fortuitous combination of various particles bound by various energies. My world is much larger and more varied than that. My world is a place of freedom and infinite possibilities. The materialist is bound by the shackles of a totally determinist universe. Nothing is free because all is the result of an inescabable chain of causation and the human being has no more freedom or significance than a stone. What a drab and horrid existence. But I know some take great satisfaction in this belief. They are free to so choose. I pray for them every so often.
One thing is certain. We will all learn the truth of our condition - sooner or later.