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Again, they cannot be derived within the formal system where they are axioms. They can be determined in a different system which uses distinct axioms or derivation rules. This is, more or less, how you could interpret the parent comment.
Your argument seems to be
It seems that you are equivocating in your demands. Your original assertion is that an algorithm can't derive (in this case, meaning invent) formal arithmetics, but the quoted argument supports another claim, namely that the formalisation of arithmetics is the most austere possible. But this claim is not (at least not obviously) relevant to the original question whether intelligence is algorithmic or not. Humans haven't derived formal arithmetics from a simpler formal system. Removing the equivocation, the argument is a clear non-sequitur:
What do you mean by magical? Saying "emergence is magical" doesn't look like a description.
I would suggest you to be more careful with such statements. It comes across as confrontational.