Ihihihihihihii  It was quite an assist to you and Spinny speaking of Damasio wasn't it myr?  ^-^ and no, I'm not a fan of Derrida: I don't like the dualists's elaborated smokescreens. In the French environment you could find very close to mine positions in the thought of the late Paul Valery but this is another story (or not?).
Back in topic though, it was an assist cause, more than what you have already remembered about Antonio, one of his main basic interests is and has always been the revaluation of the feelings/emotional side. Of course an impertinent mole could object to Antonio that the true problem doesn't stand in that revaluation but in understanding the weakness of all those approaches which make the man not the master but the slave of her/his own artifacts.
The problem for a scientist of the second foundation is not so to raise one of the possible human attitudes over the other ones but to understand instead how many could they be and how could they work. Btw myr and Spinny do you know whom Isaac Asimov was and his idea of a second foundation? Â ^-^
Context… Damásio had a rather traumatic issue here with the deonthology and ethics of the medical class, there was a huge mind shift from the humane base of his generation and the actual one which is far more commercial... however not dwelling in that and charging to Asimov, since you are asking politely I think he is a sweet little boy in that area, he is overly naïf to the nature of the machinery in which he dwells, for me it's a pure pretense to define foundation, and more to consider that there will be change in such terms... I won't even call the nature of men in this, I'll call interest and unpolitical behaviour on it and History as representation, Mass media to finish it all up in a nice little package it's a Info high culture provided by market, you can throw Paranoia Corruption Conspiracy as Propaganda and all that knowledge is what really? So I would not count in a second foundation, for all that Damásio lived and I observed it's a rather foundation 1 type B (make it simpler and more dangerous)