<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 8:52 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Trying again, as this doesn't seem to have been received:<br>
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> Jason Resch wrote:<br>
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> I really like this term "substrate indifferent." Did you originate it? I may borrow it and want to give proper credit.<br>
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As far as I know, yes, at least I don't remember anyone else using it before me (or at all, to be honest).<br>
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By all means, borrow it, use it, disseminate it, I think it makes more sense (no, it DOES make more sense!) and is less confusing, and I'd like to see it used.<br>
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But no need to credit it to me, in fact, I'm asking you not to do that. It's the idea that's important, not the person who came up with it (and I might not, in fact, be that person. I really don't know for certain).<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I greatly appreciate your sentiment and permission for re-use. I will make a case for this term in the part of my consciousness article on (what has been formerly called) "substrate Independence!"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div></div>