[shagie]

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.

[fspear]

Interesting read...I actually came to this very conclusion after an amazing mushroom trip when I was watching the movie "her". I actually drew schematics of how I envisioned the whole system would work lol.

[taneq]

Minsky's 'society of mind' is actually not far from modern techniques, where deep neural nets have multiple distinct parts that solve different parts of the problem using each others' outputs. (Not to mention explicitly multi-part methods like actor-critic).