Indy you may need to rein yourself in. This notion you have of the something more, of abstraction of a variety of things can easily be explained within the materialistic world. This explanation doesn't kill the value of the things you talked about, but rather it classifies them, makes them easier to understand.
Take the mind, for example. In recent research it is found to be consistently synonymous with the brain, take piece out of the brain and directly observe how the mind changes. These things that you speak of so glowingly have their place within theory. The value we place on personhood can be related to the social understanding that their survival helps my survival, especially if they are of my tribe. The search for the other is our innate curiosity that allows members of our species the drive to discover new and valuable things for the rest of us.
Processes, especially complex ones, obtain a kind of critical mass, and a kind of resiliency that allow them to continue and develop. There is room within chaos theory to explain how the complex process of mutation, genetics and evolution arise. And these are things that can be measured, things that can be examined, that can be taken on trust, instead of on evidence of something that is conspicuously absent.
That is the power of materialism. Things are explainable, and things that aren't are just waiting their turn.
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