Where I’m standing in this photo is where the guillotine once stood. There are five bars on the ground that mark the footprint of the famous decapitation apparatus. There’s been a decent amount of speculation with decapitation regarding the conscious state of the head immediately following. Although the spinal cord is severed, the brain doesn’t die immediately, so I would argue that the head is not conscious enough to make any movements but still has some sensory input from the eyes and sensation in the head that are briefly being processed.