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The spinal cord does provide autonomous gross stimulus responses, like pulling away a burning hand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_reflex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_reflex It doesn't seem surprising that it may exhibit more complex behaviors, such as suggested in this study about learning complex motor tasks: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26125597/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26125597/