Mona, I think you bring up a good question. Are Dean and Carlo faux-poets and intellectuals, or are they far too genius for us to understand? Either way both characters seem to have an understanding amongst each other. Dean and Carlo believe they are each other's soul mates, and Sal is usually left behind trying to get a word in. If we look at the two characters through Sal's eyes, everything they do is perfect and spectacular. However, if we try to look at them from an outside point of view, they can easily be interpreted as characters who say nonsense and think it means something.
Perhaps their genius is in the eye of the beholder; if we look for meaning in their words we will find it. This seems to be what Sal does. Perhaps because they are such charming, free spirited characters, we assume there must be some depth to them. It is difficult to separate oneself from the point of view of the main narrator, but I think you make a good point when you say that they might find the answer to something important through their random banter. In the beginning Sal told us Dean was trying to be an intellectual. Carlo seems to have influenced Dean's thought process a great deal. Perhaps the key to their pursuit of knowledge is just not caring much at all.
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