> The claim that everything is there does not imply infinite, or even large capacity.

It implies enough capacity to store everything. But what you describe is not storing everything.

> lossy compression

Which means you're not storing all the information. You're not storing everything.

> When you gain more information, graph weights are updated, essentially compressing what was already in there further.

In other words, each time you store a new memory, you throw some old information away.

Which the person I was responding to said does not happen.