A memory centric chicken flock pecking order is the simplest possible way for anything living to organize. Without memories there's nothing left to discuss and nothing to be done about it making a pecking order hierarchy the simplest possible way for our cells to organize. Our neurons themselves can organize to convey any mass, energy, and information with the highest possible efficiency for anything their size merely by each one comparing patterns for what's missing from this picture. That way they don't even have to know the contents of anything they examine and still organize effectively in outrageous numbers. Its analog logic and on the enormous scales in which they organize its the only viable way to go. Suffering merely reflects how contentious their organization has become internally with the Three Stooges providing an example, while Gonzo the Muppet represents a more positive pecking order. When times are good chickens can be quite loving and many people raise them as pets because they just love their chickens like Gonzo. Human behavior can be either just as simple or much more complex depending upon how aware and accepting they are of the situation.
I always theorized that anything on the tiniset level can explain things on a much bigger level...as in..."Study the fallen leaf from a tree, is not the secrets of the universe written within?" Am I a Buddhist? lol I have no idea. I never studied the religions.
There are; sadly, too many cases where.when the choice of acting upon/attempting to gain control, of the symptoms/condition of suffering is taken out of ones' hands