 With these distinctions at hand, we can answer questions (a) and (b). A cognitive process is a cognitive capacity considered as an information-processing activity and taken in abstraction from its physical implementation. Thus, cognitive processes are individuated in terms of what function they perform and/or in terms of what algorithms compute these functions (fair enough, the “and/or” is a very big deal, but it is something we can leave aside here). This means that the same (type of) cognitive process can be multiply realized in different physical structures. For example, parsing (roughly, the cognitive process that assigns a grammatical structure to a string of signs) can be implemented both by a human brain and a computer. On the contrary, cognitive mechanisms are particular (types of) physical structures—e.g., a certain part of the brain—implementing certain cognitive processes. More precisely, cognitive mechanisms are organized structures carrying out cognitive processes in virtue of how their constituent parts interact (Bechtel 2008; Craver 2007; Machamer et al. 2000).