Dopamine acts as a motivator and neuromodulator, driving the pursuit of needs like sex, food, or temperature regulation.

“people generally think that dopamine and dopamine hits relate to pleasure but dopamine is more of a motivator as a neurom modulator it creates a kind of an agitation State want that puts us in a state of focus and foraging to resolve some gap between how we feel and how we'd like to feel by seeking things like sex like food when we're hungry like warmth when we're cold like cool when we're too warm it's a universal currency of pursuit okay of craving and wanting as opposed to having okay”