system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Heroes] Sylar’s power is intuitive aptitude which means he can comprehend anything they perceive. Does this mean he has a fundamental understanding of how the mind works? What consciousness is? Does he know the secrets of the universe and how it works?
gpt
The universe is probably too big for his mind to grasp, which means he can't use his power on it properly. He usually has to take brains out of people to learn their powers, for instance, which wouldn't be remotely necessary if it were just pure observation. 

The same may be true of the mind - he may need to really *examine* a living brain before he can understand everything about a mind. 

But he could learn what consciousness *is* pretty easily, since it is a purely chemical process. Fully understanding every part within it is much more difficult than knowing what it *is*.