Marvin Minsky. The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. Both a model of the human mind and a blueprint for artificial intelligence as a society of specialized agents, each solving problems in a limited domain.

Marvin Minsky. The Emotion Machine. (In preparation.) A sequel to The Society of Mind exploring the role of emotions and desires for guiding and arbitrating among large numbers of specialized, but dumb, agents.