To confuse things Simon I went to look up “repetition” in my favourite book “What is a Person” by Christian Smith and ended up finding a discussion on proactive emergence:
“…proactive emergence involves cases in which agency of the emergent operations resides in the emergent entity. Here the emergent entities are the subjects of the emergent processes and outcomes on which they depend.[… introduces the dog here] Dog ontology (real being) was the agent of dog ontogeny (organic development)… The kennel owner, for instance, did not assemble the dog parts to produce an emergent dog organism for the pet owner. The agency behind the emergence adheres in the emergent entity.”

Could we say that rhizome ontology was / is the agent of rhizome ontogeny? Something Vanessa alluded to in the Twitter chat by suggesting the Rhizome, in a sense, has a mind of its own.