Sure, but I think if I ask “Why did you do that?” I’m specifically asking for an explanation related to your consciousness rather than a physical explanation. That’s a different sort of question than “Why are you six feet tall?”

I asked if chickens are conscious because, if the chicken is conscious (or at least if the question asker believes they are) than we’re asking the first sort of question and it may or may not be fair to call that question invalid based on a chicken’s conscious understanding and sysrpl’s reasoning.

If it’s not, then we can only reasonably ask the second kind of question and I agree it wouldn’t be “invalid” to do so.