[cassianoleal]

> Can you follow a recipe for making sour dough bread? Pretty easy.

Me? Unlikely. Ever.

> Can you make sour dough bread? Not so easy.

After a couple tries, probably.

> Does following a recipe require “intelligence”?

I don’t think so. A computer program is not too different from a recipe. A recipe is an algorithm. Cooking recipes tend to be badly specified ones in natural language, but algorithms just the same.

See, I’m absolutely incapable of “following recipes”, especially cooking ones. I can much more easily learn the principles behind sour dough making and then apply them. I think that requires intelligence, much more than following the algorithm.