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Talking about "drawing inferences from mental states" strikes me as a case of the homunculus fallacy, i.e., thinking that there's some kind of homunculus sitting inside our brains looking at the mental states and drawing inferences. Whereas in reality mental states are inferences.
You can have a module in a certain state and another module which draws an inference from that. No homunculus needed.
Module A doesn't "draw an inference" from the state of module B, that would require module A to have a sub-module dedicated to drawing inferences from module B and evaluating their reliability. Module A simply treats the output of module B as an inference of similar weight to the one it itself makes.
But one or more drawing-inferences-from-states-of-other-modules module could certainly exist, without invoking any separate homunculus. Whether they do and, if so, whether they are organized in a way that is relevant here are empirical questions that I lack the data to address.