The Cultural Parent: GPT-assisted diagnosis of the Super-Personal Self

Proposed by P. Drego, the construct of the “Cultural Parent” belongs to a family of socially constructed contents of consciousness, collectively termed the “Super-Personal Self”. The ego-state of the Cultural Parent corresponds to “group etiquette” (beliefs, ideology, codes, superstitions, etc.), “technical culture” (inherited patterns of thought and action, modes of functioning within society), and the “character of the group” (emotional expressions accepted within the community). The Cultural Parent participates in the formation of the Parent-2 ego-state, manifesting in its “parts” P3, A3, C3, as well as the Parent-1 ego-state. Traditionally, research on the Cultural Parent, following P. Drego’s approach, involves deep immersion in a specific ethno-cultural environment (for Drego, this was Indian culture). This present work proposes a non-traditional research method, involving the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) — artificial intelligence systems. The central idea is to trace differences in the resolution of ethical dilemmas by ChatGPT, depending on the ethno-cultural environment in which it was trained and functions (Petrovsky, 2023). Significant differences were identified in the solutions offered by ChatGPT within Russian and Uzbek cultures.