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comment by theadvancedapes

    from a physical-mental state into a purely mental state

Mental states are physical states. They have a physical basis. We will still have bodies. They will just not be biochemical in nature (IMO).

    I have rarely said to a woman, "let's have sex" and had her agree. Most often, the response is either, "no" or some version of, "no! we need to do the dance!"

Yes, there is an evolved sexual mating pattern. This will completely be wiped away and replaced with memetic information transfer (instead of genetic information transfer) - "sex" will be completely idea sex and it will have different contexts for who wants to have idea sex with who (just as happens today).

    It is interesting though, that those that have transcended their bodies tend to be bad guys.

Yes, all Hollywood science fiction and most other science fiction portray anyone who has fundamentally altered their "human-ness" to be "bad". It is a disappointing aspect of science fiction, but not all science fiction is guilty of this. There will come a point in time when transhumanism will not be demonized or constantly woven into fear-mongering narrative structures.