If people could eliminate the most primitive emotion from their thinking, our political scene, as well as the world's geopolitical ambience, would benefit from an enormous change for the better.

However, when faced with a difficult moral judgment, the brain activated other areas including those connected with both rational thought and primitive emotions.

How to live in a modern way when we still have primitive emotions such as the raw need to possess someone?

The hypothalamus engages in functions of a number of primitive emotions or feelings such as hunger, thirst and maternal bonding.