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Detailed explanation-1: -What is the Reticular Activating System (RAS) responsible for? The Reticular Activating System is responsible for our wakefulness, our ability to focus, our fight-flight response, and how we ultimately perceive the world. It can control what we perceive in our consciousness, essentially a gatekeeper of information.

Detailed explanation-2: -The reticular activating system (RAS) is composed of an ascending tract and a descending tract. The ascending RAS is responsible for human consciousness level and integrates the functions of the brain stem with cortical, cerebellar, thalamic, hypothalamic, and sensory receptor functions.