MAINT: Rename Spontaneous Potential module to Self Potential about simpeg HOT 4 CLOSED

cc @sgkang: I would be curious to get your thoughts on this as you were the first to implement it in SimPEG!

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I agree that "self potential" is the more common usage - in volcanology at least.

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I have no real preference either way, but my original thought in #1211 was that since the word self has its own importance in Python, it would be fine to stick to spontaneous

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Thanks for sharing the initial motivation Joe, I can see the motivation with self. Here, I would still advocate that we prioritize following the geophysics community and go with the more common name of self_potential, as it is the description most used in the literature we are connected with.

(and as a side note, I don't find spontaneous as fitting of a description, when you look at the definition, there is an emphasis on something being "sudden" which may or may not be the case when talking about the potentials being generated)

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