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mesencephalic tegmentum

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death and consciousness

In death: Descartes, the pineal soul, and brain-stem death
…pineal gland there lies the mesencephalic tegmentum (the uppermost part of the brain stem), which is crucial to generating alertness (the capacity for consciousness), without which, of course, there can be no volition, cognition, or reason.
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