Museum of the Creative Process

An early study explored GPT’s capacity in the formal analysis of texts. GPT surprised us with its capacity to both identify texts as syndromes of six emotions and also identifying the relational modalities of the authors of the texts. I composed a study with many explorations of AI’s capacity to analyze texts, click here for this original comprehensive study. A sample of this original study is excerpted here with the analysis of the famous speech by Abraham Lincoln, commonly known as the Gettysburg address. AI identified the six-part syndrom of the speech as stress, response, anxiety, defense, reversal, and compromise and also identified the speeker’s relational modalities

Abraham Lincoln – Gettysburg address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Overall, Lincoln’s Gettysburg address combines elements of stress, response, anxiety, defense, reversal, and compromise while employing both dominant cooperative and submissive cooperative relational modalities to convey the importance of unity, sacrifice, and dedication in the face of adversity. The speech reflects a shift from the stress of the civil war to a response that emphasizes the ongoing work for freedom and equality, while defending the principles upon which the nation was founded. The reversal occurs when Lincoln acknowledges the significance of the soldiers' actions and the compromise is achieved when he calls upon the living to continue the fight for the cause. This speech serves as a powerful reminder of the values and ideals that bind a nation together while also exemplifying leadership with respect of conflict resolving moral values.