It could be both...
That view of the brain as a receiver of som remote intelligence is also one of the conclusions of study of NDE (near death)...
Studies of patients in hospitals who have eeg measurements while apparently clincally "dying" recount nde despite no measured eeg brain signal...
Pim Lommel , a cardiologist, has one such set of studies with the conclusion of the possibility of brain as receiver in one of his book that I read some time ago...
