Earthinking Beta - What do you really want?

Many mirror neurons operate in the premotor cortex, which governs activities ranging from speaking and movement to simply intendig to act. Because they are adjacent to motor neurons, their location means that the areas of the brain that initiate a movement can readily begin to activate even as we watch someone else make that same movement. When we mentally rehearse an action - making a dry run of a talk we have to give, or envisioning the fine points of our golf swing - the same neurons activate in the premotor cortex as if we had uttered those words or made that swing. Simulating an act is, in the brain, the same as performing it, except that the actual execution is the somehow blocked.

Daniel Goleman "social intelligence"