How is our self related to midline regions and the default-mode network?

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The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs (2014, background): “…sensory processing (Sepulcre et al., 2012) and is instead engaged during higher-level, metacognitive operations such as self-reflection (Qin and Northoff, 2011), theory-of-mind (Spreng and Grady, 2010) and mental time-travel (Buckner and Carroll, 2007)—functions which may be exclusive to…”
The Default Network and Social Cognition (2015, neutral): “…self-generated thoughts, including self-referential processing, episodic or autobiographical memory, future thinking, mentalizing, spatial navigation, and conceptual processing (Binder et al., 2009; Brewer, Garrison, & Whitfield-Gabrieli, 2013; Qin & Northoff, 2011; Spreng, Mar, & Kim, 2009).”
A Meta-analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Self- and Other Judgments Reveals a Spatial Gradient for Mentalizing in Medial Prefrontal Cortex (2012, background): “These contrasts were drawn from 33 studies for self and 34 studies for other.”