The brain is effectively a computer, I donโt think that is disputable and pitch, by definition at least is, quite literally, frequency. You can dispute how the brain computes, but still a computer.The brain is not a computer at all and one of the greatest scientist think so with many others.. ( Penrose/Hameroff) and there is others...
And you hide some truth here under a wrong statement:
Pitch as a human perception CORRELATE to mathematical frequencies...
It is a correlation not an identity....Psychoacoustic is based on an ongoing process of correlation between human perceptions and mathematics...But this does not means that this process will end by reduction of the human factor to an equation or an egality....Like the transhumanist credo... Science is NOT faith....
At least correct your sentence if you dont want to correct your understanding...
But perhaps you believe that all that is human is reducible to A.I. ? Then you are right....
If this equality express this belief clearly the Essien book is completely wrong....A complete retarded spirit....
If the Brain compute with Fourrier analysis the frequencies "equal" to pitch and if pitch is completely reducible to frequencies and Fourrier analysis this book made absolutely no sense...There is no more need of a human consciousness to perceive and create music phenomena...A pitch which is a semantic phenomenon in music expression is reducible to BITS.... And your favorite theorems in information theory says all there is to say.... ๐๐
Dont bother to read the book , you will not be able to read it at all, like a monotheist cannot read shamans books and undersatanding them...
And this Nigerian is without doubt a shaman and you are a monotheist...Is it not?
Simple......
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