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Comment author: Vulture 23 May 2014 02:18:40AM 1 point [-]

It would be incredible if costly tissue like neurons just sat there doing nothing.

How big is a chicken's brain, anyway? As Jadael notes, the brain stem was intact. How much more is there to a chicken's brain? Also note that it hardly needed, say, its optical processing systems anymore.