  Cognition is a core part of and a common topic among philosophy of mind,
psychology, neuroscience, AI, and cognitive science. Through a mechanistic
lens, I propose a framework of defining, modeling, and analyzing cognition
mechanisms. Firstly, appropriate terms are introduced and used in explanations
related to the framework and within the definition of a mechanism. I implicitly
contend that this terminology essentially characterizes a conceptual world
required for discussions in this paper. Secondly, a mathematical model of a
mechanism based on directed graphs is proposed. Thirdly, the definition of a
base necessary for a mechanism to be classified as a cognition mechanism is
proposed. I argue that the cognition base has the features of the cognition
self of humans. Fourthly, three ways to mechanistically look at mechanisms is
defined and specific instances of them are suggested. Fifthly, standards for
visualization and presentation of mechanisms, cognition mechanisms, and the
instances to mechanistically look at them are suggested and used to analyze
cognition mechanisms through appropriate examples. Finally, the features of
this paper are discussed and prospects of further development of the proposed
framework are briefly expressed.
