Agree with the former. I don't think I'd quite say the latter. More like: all emotions are physiologically grounded and culturally conditioned in their expression.
There aren't any 'primitive emotions'. Emotions are complex adaptations that solved certain problems very efficiently in prehistory. Some emotions are just less useful in modern civilization.
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Pain is very complex, context-dependent, dynamic, etc -- ancient, but not simple. And still fairly relevant.
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To be fair, primitive doesn't mean simple - it means first/primeval/primal. Sometimes, the primitive version of something is as complex as the latest, or even more so.
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yes, some emotions are shared with all primates, all mammals, etc. but it's only a hierarchy if you put humans in the center :)
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i wonder if some emotions are responses specifically to modernity though (those would not be 'primitive' either of course).
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Less useful in modern civ is probably what they meant by primitive.
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Which emotions? What problems? Less useful how? A very vague assertion.
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Why is "primitive" more fuzzy than speculations about what happened in prehistory.
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I disagree. Fight now is a reflex emotion. emotions now are more nuanced, and we have the cognitive capacity to treat them as such.
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