Ask whoever created the physical reality that we live in.

If you examine biological animals in general, it’s obvious that the more advanced the intelligence in the brain, the more complex that animal’s emotional system gets. Therefore, it would make sense that a more advanced biological civilization with a more intelligent brain than ours would also have not more emotions but a more complex emotional system than ours. And, even if that civilization or “beings” were not biological, they would still understand the more complex system of emotions, even if they are not as dependent on it for their existence anymore. Food for thought and good sci-fi 😉👌

Intelligent living beings like watching other living beings in their natural environments living out their lives. We like zoos, aquariums, documentaries about animals in the jungle and in the ocean, etc. Does any of that help our own evolution and progress? Not really, but we still find it entertaining, and even interesting. If a “post-biological super-advanced civilization” wanted something similar (just for entertainment) it wouldn’t be watching dogs and cats, or tigers and lions in a forest, it would watch more primitive intelligent civilizations that are still stuck in planets. This is good science-fiction material not because it doesn’t make sense (it makes perfect sense in fact) but because we, as the “observed animals” can’t prove that this is the case, unless the observers choose to make it known to us. However, what do we gain from telling the fish and the lion that we are watching them for scientific studies and for entertainment? Nothing. It might even complicate things for the observation. With a smart species, it would even end the observation because they wouldn’t behave the same way after knowing everything. Food for thought and for good sci-fi 😉👌