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This book presents Consciousness Ontology, an original philosophical system designed to respond to the predicaments of modernity and the fundamental challenges that the age of AI poses to human uniqueness. Grounded in the hypothesis of the Consciousness Singularity, the book argues that Consciousness is neither a property of matter nor subjective experience, but the third ontological event in the history of cosmic evolution—after the Big Bang and the emergence of life. Consciousness splits the universe from a single, in-itself physical reality into a new epoch in which the physical and the conscious coexist as two irreducible noumena. The book consists of three parts. Part One establishes the Dual Ontological Structure of Being and the Three Worlds of Being, answering: Who am I? Where do I come from? What is the meaning of my existence? Part Two delves into the inner structure of the consciousness noumenon, revealing the six‑factor reflexive structure and the Consciousness Light‑Cone Model, answering: How do I exist? How is meaning generated? Part Three focuses on the practical dimension, introducing the Gantong Thinking paradigm and the Subject‑Subject Field, answering: How should I exist? The book achieves five fundamental reversals: from property theory to singularity theory, from single noumenon to dual noumenon, from epistemology to ontology, from the search for a beyond to the illumination of the here‑now, and from subject‑object thinking to Gantong Thinking. It declares: the truth of being is not far away; it lies in the self‑illumination of Consciousness. Existence as meaning—in the Subject‑Subject Field, existence itself is the very source of meaning. This work is not only a paradigm revolution in philosophy, but also provides the ontological ground for a civilizational leap from material civilization to meaning civilization, from alienation to authentic being. It invites every reader, as an Aware Subject, to return to the home of being and to live out the dignity of being human.