Hmph. Read through to the end, and even the paper's co-author agrees nothing was really proven, and learning is quite likely still a major factor in what we prefer to hear.

There's also no discussion of cultures whose traditional music focuses on creating audible beating, like gamelan. There's a ton of audible beating, it's completely intentional and part of the sound, and even if you've grown up listening to music with a lower normal level of dissonance the sound can grow on you.

It's also worth mentioning that highly consonant music is pretty lifeless -- even in the world of western music, the drive and power of a piece comes in tension and release.