Descartes' daydream and the mind-body problem After having urged us to wake up from our "daydreaming" and to revolutionize our mode of thought in that of conceptualization, Descartes seems to forget about this crucial question of a discontinuous leap. It seems that the same has happened to the profession in general and this has affected philosophical research and teaching. Here it is emphasized that discontinuous processes are crucial in the universe, in human life, in human thought. Such ontological events cannot be handled by dualism, materialism or postmodernism. Concentration on these discontinuous processes is urged, an alternative is briefly indicated and a criterion for ordering the levels of human reality is offered. It follows the line of Cantor and Marx. It is suggested that a human being is a transfinite entity and that such an entity has many levels of being, including cognitive processes, imaginative processes, and physical processes. A person is "nothing but" these without being "nothing but" any of these. Descartes is a canonical figure in the philosophical curriculum of the West. Yet his writings embody a sort of paradox or contradiction, a paradox that still today contaminates both philosophical research and the teaching of philosophy. Briefly said, after exhorting us to "wake up" from our mentally low level of "daydreaming", after exhorting us to break away from that kind of mental process and think at the highest level of the episteme, it seems that all the content provided operating at the new higher level they are characterized by continuity, by linearity. The original trait of discontinuity falls victim to a sort of doctrinal amnesia. Paradoxes or contradictions can be heuristic and beneficial. Plato is certain... halfway down the paper... it is up to the profession to direct some of its attention in this direction. But it offers a criterion for evaluating worldviews, thought and lived. It is a criterion in line with those 19th century figures of Cantor and Marx: one worldview is better than another worldview just in case the potential human population density is greater with it than with the other/ And. Accordingly, the model would be that a human person is a multi-level being in which there is a kind of ultra-powerful transcendental unity of both apprehension and life and that the body is a real but inferior appearance and effect of the Oneness. That Unity was called "soul". Included in this redirected effort would be an educational process that emphasized more the leaps we make and ask our students to make, and more practice engaging in them. Plato has many good exercises for this.