The Soulite Hypothesis: Consciousness as a Cycling Inhabitant. A Parasitological Model of the Soul

This speculative position paper in the philosophy of mind proposes that consciousness is not an arrangement of the brain but an inhabitant of it: the Soulite. Modelled on parasite life histories, the Soulite enters the nervous system at the neural plate stage, co-develops with the brain, steers host behaviour, and leaves before death to continue a cycle across hosts. The paper answers the claim that the soul survives because matter is conserved, proposes a transmission pathway from partner to mother through intimacy and from mother to embryo during gestation, and tests it against assisted reproduction, seminal fluid signalling and fetal-maternal microchimerism research. Biological precedents are cited and objections and possible tests are set out. The biology is real and referenced; the Soulite itself is a hypothesis.