If anything, isn't the simulator more conscious? It's integrating all the information that the other one does. But it's also translating between its compute mod

If anything, isn't the simulator more conscious? It's integrating all the information that the other one does. But it's also translating between its compute model and another compute model, which is additional integration of information. The simulator is "thinking about" whatever the simulated brain is thinking about and is also "thinking about" how it's doing the simulation.