Is Reality Incomplete? Desmond and Vervaeke on Meaning and Being

The podcast explores the concept of relevance realization as a fundamental feature of cognition and its relationship to intelligibility and realness. John Vervaeke proposes that relevance realization is profoundly "metaxu," or "in-between," in several ways: it exists between the subjective and objective, the algorithmic and arbitrary, facts and values, and the primordial and ultimate. William Desmond discusses the importance of receptivity to what is other to us and the dangers of a purely scientific or mathematical approach to understanding reality. The conversation touches on the nature of projection, theoria as pilgrimage, and the potential of nihilism as an opening to renewed meaning. The speakers also consider the interplay between activity and passivity, the significance of wayfaring, and the distinction between pilgrimage and tourism.