Good and Evil

OH NO!!!!!! My brain has come back to life after months of drowning in LaLaLand. That can be a bad thing but I consider it good. Though I can come up with the craziest thoughts & questions during this time, it also makes me think harder & dig deeper. Mind thinking with me?

The “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” and “the tree of life” were in the middle of the Garden of Eden: “And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:9, KJV).
God forbade Adam and Eve from eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (v. 17), “for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (KJV). Genesis 3 records Adam and Eve disobeying God and eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
(See FALL; See FORBIDDEN FRUIT) and so the coming of death into the world (3:3, 5–6, 22).

Manser, M. H., Fleming, N. B., Hughes, K., & Bridges, R. F. (2000). I never knew that was in the Bible! (electronic ed.) (453). Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

My mind - my questions: Why did God not want us to know the difference? If we never knew evil, would that not be a bunch of robots just knowing good but not evil? When they knew they were naked & covered themselves, was it the sinful thoughts that entered their minds about the other that made their nakedness sin then & not before taking the fruit? I had some other ones but my kids started screaming & took my thoughts somewhere else.