Wolfram himself never claims that it is anywhere near a scientific theory. Theory requires a model, but not the other way around. What Wolfram has at present i

Wolfram himself never claims that it is anywhere near a scientific theory. Theory requires a model, but not the other way around. What Wolfram has at present is a model which can be used to represent crude analogues of some things that may exist. It's flexible enough to be able to represent a wide array of different kinds of things, by the nature of being based on graphs (which define their own topologies) and update rules, which re-enact the patterns of positive feedback and complex emergent structures.