At a more general level, you may find the book Society of the Mind interesting ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind ). In this, Minsky proposes simple (mindless) agents that then are combined together to form a mind. That our mind is interacting with the world and launching agents to deal with things - that our own mind may be built this way.

Yes, its a bit old (1986) and the current machine learning techniques have dated it - what was theory at one time is reality in places. Still a good book to read and think about.