Why not? This is NOT my area, and I'm most likely VERY wrong. But we get input from our eyes, it goes through all the layers of the brain and comes out as a w

Why not? This is NOT my area, and I'm most likely VERY wrong. But we get input from our eyes, it goes through all the layers of the brain and comes out as a word in speech. Could that not be how our mind evolved before getting this 'consciousness layer' on top of it? Maybe building on this adding more and more abstract layers, training them to return useful info, could nudge things in the right way?