What is so special about embodied simulation?

By Vittorio Gallese †, Corrado Sinigaglia. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2011

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A Moderate Approach to Embodied Cognitive Science (2012, background): “It is noteworthy that Gallese, a long-time proponent of the importance of embodiment (see Gallese 2005, 2007), has recently signed on to the Bformat interpretation of embodiment (Gallese and Sinigaglia 2011).5 However, I have yet to offer a specific formulation of an embodied cognition thesis.”
Making enactivism even more embodied (2014, background): “Affect is closely related to the phenomenon of perceptual presence elaborated by Noë (2004), and specifically involves a sense of interest or investment.”
The interactive brain hypothesis (2012, background): “Some recent discussions on embodied approaches to social cognition have reduced the role of the body to that of formatting so-called neural “representations” although no effort is made to clarify what this term could mean (Goldman and de Vignemont, 2009; Gallese and Sinigaglia, 2011).”