When looking "out" the closer you look the more there is. In a sense you create more by looking for more.

When looking "inward" at oneself, the closer you look the less there is!

Whatever brought on the "idea" of taking a step, of standing , of walking. The idea of a of a "there" to go to?

Long before you came to claim as "yours", parts of an objective environment that really has no need for a "you" (it works with you or without you) and limited this effect by the use of "labels" (atoms particles) and "directions" (velocity and resistance), you found you could "control" something you didn't understand.

You could make it move, and make it wiggle. Wrap it around things. There were more than one of these! You could DO COOL STUFF! Things you were doing all along, but were unaware of. The idea of fingers was unnecessary for the discovery of how a hand works.

And there was fresh stuff, original to you. A brand new foot has never taken a step. Long before considering it yours or even knowing it's use in standing and walking, you build a foot through use: behavior. This leads to taking the "first step". And with that step the feet begin to change, depending on how you use them: by your behavior. Behavior that does not necessarily require "you" to be there.

But most likely you were.

Watch an infant discover the use of "fingers!".

Someone is "in there" paying attention.