The fact that this distinction is so important to us does not make it objective . The intellect alone cannot handle certain kinds of phenomena.
Objectivity is gained only at a price, and in some cases what is lost is the point of the exercise.
After a few more perceptions a correlation with a loud, rumbling sound will come in, previously unnoticed because they don't always come together. There is no denying the usefulness of such knowledge, but it can be achieved only by eliminating the characteristics of a particular point of view, getting away from the experience of lightning. Conscious experience is precisely what objectivity must transcend. Lightning has an objective character that may be found by integrating the data from many observations. Experience has no such character.