How Can Conscious Computers Be a Lifeform?

"Living things are organized, take materials and energy from the environment, respond to stimuli, reproduce and develop, and adapt to the environment." Definition of Life, S. Mader, BIOLOGY, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1998, p. 2-4.
Computers can meet that definition
But to be a Member of the Human Club, don’t you need genes?
Won’t some refuse to give the rights of the species to anyone not of the species?

"Living things are organized, take materials and energy from the environment, respond to stimuli, reproduce and develop, and adapt to the environment." Definition of Life, S. Mader, BIOLOGY, 6th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1998, p. 2-4.