5. Your memory isn't as good as you think.
你的記憶力并不像你想的那么好

When you remember an event in the past, your brain uses a very similar technique to imagining the future. The process is less like "replaying a video" than "putting on a play from a script." If the script is wrong for whatever reason, you can have a false memory that is just as vivid as a true one. Eyewitness testimony, it turns out, is one of the least reliable forms of evidence allowed into courtrooms.
我們的大腦記憶過去的機制和想像未來的機制是非常相似的。這個過程更像是“照著劇本演戲”而不是“重放錄像帶”，如果劇本出錯了（不管是什么原因引起的），你就會得到一段虛假的記憶，而它和真實的記憶一樣生動清晰。因此，目擊者的證詞其實是法庭上出示的所有證據中最不靠譜的一種。