carbon based. i eat other living things. contemplation is enjoyable and i love to hear myself think. i confess to being conflicted philosophically when it comes to the many injustices inherent in consumer-oriented, industrially-based systems of exploitation, but i am quite comfortable and have access to a wide range of life experience. i see a fractal nature that pervades consciousness and goes out to the cosmos and in to the subatomic. life is truly awesome.