Place theory is what Bekesy worked on with the cochlea, he came up with his traveling wave theory which won the Nobel prize.Yes and he never equate pitch with frequency nor he reduced hearing to fourrier analysis...
Anyway if you read my last posts above quoting from the Master Handbook you will understand what i speak about....in the master handbook of acoustic pitch is not described as only frequency or linearly related to frequency.... Reality is way more complex....
PitchThe fact that some tool work with the hypothesis of this reduction dont infirm the question linked to the nature of sound and hearing.....
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/pitch.html#c1
read Ansermet and Essien....
i apologize here because Alas! Ansermet is not translate in english....
The fundamental question is simple: his human consciousness an epiphenomenon or the essential phenomenon...
With Essien and Ansermet i think that human consciousness is fundamental and irreducible to quantity, measure, or the brain mechanic ... The qualitative experience of the world is irreductible...
But our friend here claim the opposite and i guess you also....
I will recommend to you the books or youtube video of Bernardo Kastrup about consciouness fundamental reality ... materialism is dead long ago.... It is only technology evolution that hide this fact to some...
If you are not afraid of big book my philosopher for general knowledge theory is Ernst Cassirer...