Chemistry BZ universal logic gate

The provided paper reinterprets the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction as a binary threshold logic gate by demonstrating that its kinetics follow a universal mathematical form, P = (S \times E \times R) / (Env + \Phi), where P represents a persistence value. By mapping chemical variables like reactant concentration (Structure), stirring (Exploration), and temperature (Rate) against inhibitors (Environment) and entropy, researchers showed that all experimental data collapse onto a single master curve where oscillations only occur when P exceeds a specific threshold T. This framework suggests that chemical oscillations are not merely domain-specific phenomena but are functionally identical to neural action potentials, cell division cycles, and digital computation. Ultimately, the work posits that chemistry and computation are unified, framing chemical reactions as information-driven state transitions governed by the same logical substrate that operates across all of science.