Sauro Tronconi: Author, Essayist and Philosopher

AUTHOR, ESSAYIST AND PHILOSOPHER

Memory, consciousness and human agency in the age of intelligent systems.

Sauro Tronconi is an author, essayist and philosopher. His research focuses on memory, attention, consciousness and freedom of choice. He has published with Castelvecchi, Pendragon, EdUP and Il Ponte Vecchio. He is the author of the original story for Lo specchio di Lorenzo, produced by beQ for Rai Ragazzi. His work spans essays, novels and short fiction.

Books and publications: English · Español · Français · Deutsch · Português · Italiano · Full bibliography (Italian) · Sauro Tronconi on Goodreads.

Publishing references and documented credits are collected in the press kit. They include publisher and bookseller catalogues, La Nazione’s film coverage and the 2010 pilot-study record in PubMed.

His work also examines time and the processes through which experience becomes personal continuity.

His research brings philosophy, psychology, anthropology, semiotics, the history of religions, cognitive science and contemplative traditions into dialogue while keeping their claims distinct. Its central question is simple to state and difficult to answer: what enables a person to remain connected to themselves while time, habit, culture and technology continually reshape perception?

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The Memory Principle
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Research architecture

Memory and continuity

Memory is not understood only as the storage of past information. It selects, connects and reconstructs experience, allowing separate moments to acquire continuity and direction.

Attention and agency

Habits and automatic responses are necessary parts of life. The question is what happens when they continue to govern after circumstances have changed, and whether attention can create a real interval between stimulus and response.

Culture and transmission

Language, myths, rituals, symbols, works and institutions shape what individuals and societies can remember. Cultural memory is therefore part of the inquiry into identity, responsibility and the future.

Technology as a cognitive environment

Digital platforms and intelligent systems do more than store or distribute information. They organise attention, anticipate preferences and participate in decision processes. The work does not portray technology or artificial intelligence as evil agents; it examines incentives, design choices and the human capacities affected by them.

Research & AI — Human Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence introduces an exploratory line of inquiry into memory, metacognition, bias, cognitive delegation and responsibility. Development matrices are presented as a conceptual proposal, with philosophical interpretations and empirical claims kept distinct.

A body of research: selected works

The Memory Principle: How Time Gives Birth to Consciousness

The Memory Principle: How Time Gives Birth to Consciousness is a completed, unpublished Italian manuscript. It examines memory as the process through which lived experience can become continuity, responsibility and choice. Its concept of vertical memory is philosophical and experiential, not a claim to a new neuroscientific faculty.

Digital Zombification

Digital Zombification is the English edition of Zombificazione digitale, published in Italian in 2026. The English paperback was published in September 2026. The book investigates designed environments that capture attention, orient behaviour and encourage cognitive delegation. It focuses on the economic, cultural and technological architecture that makes automatic response useful and profitable.

The selected works belong to a wider body of essays, fiction and public dialogue on memory, consciousness, culture and responsibility. Each addresses a specific question within Sauro Tronconi’s continuing research.

The Unreliable Species

The Unreliable Species is the proposed international title of La specie inaffidabile. Quando la potenza supera la capacità di correggersi. The complete Italian manuscript examines the gap between the power of our tools and our capacity to recognise mistakes and change course. Full English, French, Spanish and German translations are available for editorial consideration.

The Memory Principle
Italian manuscript presentation
Zombificazione digitale

Find Sauro Tronconi’s books by language

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English editions

Complete English book guide — published editions, books in preparation and manuscripts.

Creating Destiny: The Power of the Conscious Mind and Spirituality: When Silence Listens are available as English ebooks and paperbacks. Their edition pages provide verified bookseller links and available formats. Illusions is also available in English paperback.

New English ebooks: Chrono-Consciousness and From Chaos to Happiness. See each edition page for verified bookseller links and availability in your country.

Published editions by language

For the wider body of essays and fiction, see the full bibliography. Readers can follow the author’s work on Goodreads and explore longer reflections on Substack (mainly Italian).

Editions in preparation

Spanish editions in preparation (guide in Spanish). New French, Spanish and German paperbacks of Synchronicity are also in preparation; their published ebooks remain listed above.

Manuscripts for editorial consideration

The Memory Principle, The Unreliable Species, Life in Our Absence and The Elsewhere Industry are manuscript projects with translations for editorial consideration, not a list of published foreign editions. The sections below explain their status.

Beyond the Sin of Unconsciousness — published English ebook (2020), Es·Books.

Edition guide updated on 16 October 2026. Book language is shown separately from the country of the store. Retail availability and delivery options vary by territory.

Readers in South Korea

For now, readers in South Korea can explore the published English editions in the guide to English-language books. Availability and delivery to South Korea must be checked with each bookseller.

No Korean-language book has been published yet. A Korean translation of a work of nonfiction is planned; the title and publication details will be announced when confirmed.

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International development

Sauro Tronconi’s work is being developed through an international programme of targeted outreach to selected publishers, agents, journals, festivals, universities, foundations, podcasts and research centres.

Targeted activity has begun across multiple national and territorial markets. The purpose is to build durable cultural relationships around a body of research, not simply to circulate a single manuscript indiscriminately.

Activity is at different stages across territories and does not in itself imply editorial interest, representation or partnership. Any formal agreement will be identified explicitly.

Publishing, rights and media enquiries

For The Memory Principle, the Italian manuscript is complete and unpublished. Full English, French, Spanish and German translations are available for editorial consideration, together with a proposal, synopsis and evaluation sample. Text completeness and editorial review are identified separately.

The Es·Books editorial project supports the development of the wider body of work. Complete translations of Life in Our Absence and The Elsewhere Industry are also available in English, French, Spanish and German for editorial consideration. Digital Zombification has published English and German paperbacks, as well as Spanish and French Kindle and paperback editions. See the edition details. Information updated on 13 September 2026.

Rights availability, existing editions and any applicable representation arrangements are confirmed for each title, language, territory and format. Enquiries concern the selected work; they do not imply rights or exclusivity over the wider corpus.

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Selected background

In his autobiographical account, Sauro Tronconi recalls studying semiotics with Umberto Eco in Bologna in 1983. His archive of readings and rereadings includes excerpts from Roberto Calasso’s L’ardore and Umberto Galimberti’s preface to La casa di psiche.

Tronconi has published essays, novels and short fiction. His international publishing record includes Selbsterkenntnis und innere Entwicklung des modernen Menschen, published in Germany by Arbor Verlag in 2008, and Beyond the Sin of Unconsciousness: Self Awareness and Inner Evolution in Contemporary Man, published in English in 2020.

He wrote the original story concept for the animated short Lo specchio di Lorenzo, produced by beQ entertainment for Rai Ragazzi and broadcast on Rai Yoyo. In 2010, he co-authored a pilot study on self-awareness published in Psychological Reports and indexed in PubMed.

He founded Espande Magazine and the Espande Institute, now Espande Academy. His seminar work is represented in the dated selection held in the author’s archive. His work developed outside a conventional academic career through sustained independent study, writing, public activity and research journeys in Asia, the Middle East and the United States.

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