The idea that a culture can arbitrary accept "dissonant tones" as long as they have not been conditioned otherwise suggests that I can button-mash a keyboard an

The idea that a culture can arbitrary accept "dissonant tones" as long as they have not been conditioned otherwise suggests that I can button-mash a keyboard and maybe they would find it pleasurable. Perhaps consonance and dissonance are concepts that are largely defined by musical circumstances. If that's the case, then it doesn't make sense to approach the problem with a sort of western definition of dissonance. In other words, I think it's safe to assume every culture has an idea of what is tasteful and what is not in their music. The way I see it, if you take that position, then you can also assume the culture has their own definitions of what is consonant and what is dissonant. These may or may not coincide with the western theory of common practice period harmony.