Are you living in a simulation? Or is the simulation living in you? Or both at the same time?
It seems to me that anything that comes into consciousness, real or imagined, is a simulation of something "out there," in the so-called real world. And it seems we can affect and interact with things "out there," but we can never be sure to what degree our internal simulation reflects "reality."
So these simulations in our digital devices, it seems to me, aren't complete simulations until they are experienced by consciousness. Until that point, they are at best meaningless groupings of ones and zeroes. No, not even that. They are just differences in voltage on billions of little transistors, or of light intensity and frequency amongst pixels on a screen, totally unconscious and without meaning until consciousness completes them.