ABSTRACT
This chapter describes what the emergence of rational souls consists in, explicating the concepts of emergence, soul, and rationality. On the basis of intuitive, yet defended, premises, it argues the existence of rational souls. In a more indirect approach, it points out which basic feature the world must have in order to allow the existence and emergence of rational souls, it gives an argument to the conclusion that the world has this feature in fact, and it fi nally shows that if the world has the said feature, then the emergence of rational souls is a natural expectation.
