This book is a critique of the kind of human knowledge - religious, scientific, philosophical, political - that is supposed to explain and manage our existence. The author calls it Big-Knowledge. 'The Tree of Innocence' explains how it is faulty and the degree to which it misleads us. Big-Knowledge also faces a gigantic upheaval. A specific human activity, the collecting of information about everything and collating it into a world-view would stop if humans disappeared altogether. Any knowledge left in the world would be just the innate nature of the remaining organisms though that is a huge amount of knowledge, far bigger and very different from the 'Big' kind we have accumulated in our brief history on earth. The world without us will lose our Big-Knowledge, and it is inconceivable that the world will suffer in the slightest as a result. At present, many, perhaps a majority, of human beings do presume to be under the aegis of gods, or a 'God'. How would they react to the...

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