Quote Originally Posted by animus
All along we thought Sylar ate brains. Now I don't even know what the fuck he does. He pulls a certain part out of the brain and just absorbs it into his body? Or fiddling around inside the brain he some how gets the power?
I was always under the assumption that he analyzes the brain and understands how it works. I even believe he said something along those lines, about how well he understood clocks and how it mirrors his power.