Windmill knight said:The same question crossed my mind. When on a previous session the Cs first mentioned that we were an experiment, I assumed that the experimenters were 4D STS and the goal of the experiment was perhaps to see how they could achieve a perfect control system by enslaving the human race via their own free will. However, the fragment below sort of suggests that the experiment consists in finding a right formula for evolution, and we are failing at it.
Experiment comes from the Latin experiri, 'to try'. One definition: "a course of action tentatively adopted without being sure of the eventual outcome". In the grand scheme of things, maybe the entire universe is an experiment. Set up the parameters with certain goals in mind, throw in some free will, and see what happens. The universe does seem weighted in certain directions. For example, looking at evolution, we see a steady increase in complexity and consciousness. Fine tuning of the 'universal constants' also may suggest some foresight on the part of the cosmos. In other words, the universe may have certain goals or outcomes 'in mind'. But it's a free will universe. Every piece has some degree, however limited, of free will. We can influence each other and be influenced, but in the end it's up to us. The more options we have, the more errors we can make, the greater potential to do evil (i.e., act against the 'grand plan'). And if we aren't aligned with the inherent goals of the cosmos, we may be instruments of our own destruction, based on the parameters set up to run the experiment.