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The probability of something becoming addictive is how much dopamine it produces and how easily accessible it is to you in any given moment. Sounds like Instagram. Exactly. Dopamine is produced in anticipation for a future event. I don't get dopamine from the pornography itself. I get dopamine from the anticipation of a particular experience that's posed in the future. But once I have the experience, that dopamine baseline goes down. Kind of like you do the drug or you do the thing, you get that little bit of a hit upon moment of arrival, but then the more you do it, the less of the pleasure that you get, and then you need to do more of it to keep the dopamine baseline steady. When we understand that dopamine is responsible for the motivational neuro networks of the brain, how motivation functions, what we're motivated by, and why we're motivated by it, chemically speaking.