Sounds like Wolfram speak to me. Did you ever get a chance to read any of his book, A New Kind of Science?

The basic idea was:

- take a bunch of existing CS theory

- spin it into elaborate framework, supported by what is basically just a thought experiment

- rant and rave for PAGES about what a genius you are, and how much better you are than the same scientists you just plagiarized (while aligning yourself with famous scientists such as Newton).

This seems eerily similar.

For anyone interested, there was an Amazon review ( http://www.amazon.com/review/RUGSCP3XBNBUV/ref=cm_cr_rdp_per... ) that actually seemed to track down precisely what Wolfram "borrowed" from when writing his book.