The Brahmavihara Sutta (A 10.208) has a fascinating sentence:
citt'antaro aya.m bhikkhave macco
which Nyanaponika/Bodhi ("Numerical Discourses of the Buddha") translate as:
"Mortals have consciousness as the connecting link" (A:NB 269).
Possible alternate translations are:
(A) "Monks, this mortal life is an intermediate state of mind."
(B) "Monks, this mortal life is an intermediate state of consciousness."
(C) "Monks, man (macco) is but an intermediate-state consciousness."