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This is cool. I think this kind of immortality is an interesting inversion of the old idea of immortality. Usually people think the body is shit but the "soul" is immortal and perfect. But this way, it's the body that's actually immortal (though in a different sense I guess), and the soul is unnecessary.

Consciousness Explained, by Daniel Dennett
Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse

both great

Sounds like a bogus argument.

Two non-existing things combined simply make a third non-existing thing.  No meta level needed.

It doesn't even work when you combine the non-existing with the impossible (the impossible being on a higher order than the possible-yet-not-existant).  It simply is also impossible.

Yes, I'm quite sure it was a bogus argument. It was still delightful, though. I think most of the bogusness came from treating nonexisting things as actually existing in another realm (the realm of nonexistence).

Perhaps I did just dream this up. Oh well.

I remember reading an argument once (I think on a Discordian site) which used purple stoplights and a global conveyor belt to prove that there are more than just two dimensions of existence.

I think the argument went something like this:
Consider a global conveyor belt. Clearly this doesn't exist. So it's in the realm of non-existence. Now consider purple stoplights. These also don't exist. So they're also in the realm of non-existence. ...This is where I'm a bit confused. I know we end up saying that a global conveyor belt with purple stoplights on it must be in some new third realm (neither the realm of existence nor the realm of non-existence). I'm just not quite sure how we do it. I think the argument may have used some semantic or linguistic shenanigans.

Googling "purple stoplights" leads me to believe that either this argument has been lost, or I've misremembered it, or I've just hallucinated it entirely.

Does anyone remember this or have any ideas?