Ambient Intelligence investigates processes of emergence of non-neuronal and expanded forms of intelligence, both in nature and technology.

The convergence of nature and computation brings about what has been called a new ecological paradigm, which is the result of the multiplicity of natural and artificial, human and non-human agents. The consequent decentralisation of intelligence inevitably challenges the hierarchical modern conception of reason, which is supposedly able to control and master nature. The central position of western subjectivity – embodied by the white, straight man - is heavily challenged, finally allowing new processes of subjectivization to unfold.