 The above expression “nosco me aliquid noscere, et quicquid noscit est, ergo ego sum” is not the final sentence of the Antoniana Margarita, since Gómez Pereira will formulate new arguments pro immortalitate, but it can be considered as the true culmination of all the discourse that the author has directed to prove the immortality of the soul. This discourse represents the central nerve of the work to which the other contents, and especially the doctrine of animal insensitivity, are secondary derivations. Many scholars have argued that animal automatism represents the genuine motif of the Antoniana, probably because of its originality, but we should not confuse originality with logical priority.  Underneath the amalgam of contents and the diffuse and often disordered prose of the author of the Antoniana, a well-structured reasoning was present, in which three stages can be distinguished (González Vila 1975: 22.): 