Are there "half step", or other subdivisions, of the Mandelbrot iteration function?

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The Mandelbrot Set is generated by iterating $f(z)=z^2+c$.

Is there a "half-step" function $g(z)$ such that $g(g(z))=f(z)$? What is the method for finding such half-iteration functions?

Likewise, is there a "half-half-step" (or "quarter-step") function $h(z)$ such that

$$h(h(z))=g(z)$$

and

$$h(h(h(h(z))))=f(z)$$

?

If so can we subdivide the steps to infinity? i.e.

$$g_n(g_n(z))=g_{n-1}(z)$$

and

$$g_0(z)=f(z)$$

?

And could we thereby define a continuation of the Mandelbrot iteration function?