Does calculating math affect the conscious experience of that math?

(Apologies if this has been discussed here before; I can't imagine I'm the first person to think about this, but it's a hard thing to search for, and I'm curious of others' thoughts)

Suppose you do the math to simulate a conscious mind, and you interact with that mind through your computer. Did doing that math on your computer actually cause the consciousness to experience anything? Or did that experience already exist as math, before you actually represented the math on your computer?

What if you did the same math on pen and paper instead? At what stroke of your pen does that mind begin experiencing anything? What if your pen runs out of ink just before that stroke, but you think the next digit in your head?

Does writing down the math in ink on paper really do anything, from the perspective of the math? How even could it? The ink and paper has no inherent mathematical meaning to the universe. It only has meaning to you, as a human, because you have learned "arabic numerals", which equates some visual stimuli with numbers. (And a computer runs into the same problems: That specific arrangement of electrons in your silicon has no inherent mathematical meaning to the universe at large; it's just a subjective, symbolic representation that we humans have decided on.)

If you accept that writing the math down affected that mind's conscious experience, it implies that experience of that mind was affected by your subjective interpretation, as a human, of the meaning of the ink on that page.

And if you photocopy all those pages, does that mind experience the same thing twice? What if you do identical calculations by hand a second time on different paper? What if you do identical calculations a second time, on a computer instead of on paper? The math is the same: The outcomes of all those calculations already existed, and were predetermined before you wrote them down. Surely, physically representing it twice in our world doesn't mean that that experience happened twice, from the perspective of this mind?

To me, it seems like the only coherent resolution to these problems is that this mind already had the experience represented by this math, just by virtue of the math existing, before anyone calculated it or wrote it down. Calculating and writing it down in our world revealed it to us, but it didn't make anything new happen to it.