SHAP analysis on The Spirits' Book — Kardec's logical reasoning identified as highest-importance passage
Less than 24 hours after publishing these datasets, a data scientist ran an NLP explainability analysis using SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) on the English edition of The Spirits' Book.
The model scored the passage from Question 13 (on the attributes of God) as the most important in the entire work (importance: 1.0 — maximum):
"Your reason tells you that God must be perfect in those attributes to the nth degree, for if God lacked any of them or was not perfect in them to the nth degree, God would not be superior to everything else, and thus would not be God."
Not an emotional passage. Not a message of comfort. Pure deductive logic — structured philosophical reasoning. The model, with zero doctrinal context, independently identified what Kardec always emphasized: Spiritism is built on reason.
Full notebook: https://www.kaggle.com/code/mpwolke/kardec-the-spirits-book-shap-nlp
Kaggle dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/iaespirita/kardec-datasets
Zenodo DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19153971
The datasets are open and free for research, fine-tuning, RAG, and education. If you use them, we'd love to hear about it.