The central question here is: will people retain love? I think rather
few of us would deliberately remove such feelings from ourselves, even
if they have their basis in "primitive" evolutionary reasons. We still
turn even the basic need for food into complex cultural events with
high symbolic and social significance ("dinner"), and I doubt a
posthuman would make itself unable to enjoy a meal even if it was
powered in other ways. Radical technology doesn't seem to imply that
we *remove* much of our current selves, but that we extend them in new
ways, redefining and refining the.
As for that the social forms these basic feelings take, that is
another matter. Marriage is just one possibility. I have faith in
(post)human creativity to come up with many more.
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