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You know how when you cut the head off of a chicken it runs around sporadically for like 45 seconds? Even though the chicken is technically dead and all communication between the brain and the muscular system has been severed reflexes are stored in the spinal canal. The dead chicken undergoes 45 seconds of incredibly correlated muscle spasms and runs in…