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How do I study proofs if I have no interest in them other than getting smarter?

New thought experiment just dropped. Discuss it while it's hot.

Suppose scientists can actually perform the "brain in a vat" thing. They offer to extract your brain and hook it up to a fuckload of electrodes and provide you with a simulation of sensory inputs indistinguishable from real world experience. You'd be guaranteed that your experience would be optimized to maximize pleasure. However, they tell you that there's no going back. You can never return into your old body and into the original reality. Would you do it? If not, what keeps you attached to a non-pleasant reality instead?