The Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker put it this way, "People are embraced or condemned according to their beliefs, so one function of the mind may be to hold beliefs that bring the belief-holder the greatest number of allies, protectors, or disciples(信徒), rather than beliefs that are most likely to be true."
哈佛大学心理学家史蒂芬·平克这样说:“人们根据他们的信仰被接纳或谴责,因此大脑的一个功能可能是持有给信仰持有者带来最多盟友、保护者或信徒的信仰,而不是最有可能是真实的信仰。”
由 "so" 引导的结果状语从句,说明前述现象的推论。从句主语 "one function of the mind",系动词 "may be",表语为不定式短语 "to hold beliefs...",后接两个并列的定语从句分别修饰 "beliefs",由 "rather than" 连接形成对比。