 Volitions. The fourth collection of aggregates includes  dispositional formations or volitions  (saṃskṛta-skandha). Volitions are primarily  responsible for bringing forth future states of existence. They  include all the conditioned factors that are intrinsic to  consciousness (saṃprayuktasaṃskāra) as well as factors that are dissociated from consciousness  (viprayuktasaṃskāra). Support for the view that  mental factors dissociated from thought are to be included in the  category of dispositional formations is found in the  Saṃyukta-Nikāya (V, 450): “Delighting in  such volitional formations, they generate volitional formations that  lead to birth, generate volitional formations that lead to aging,  generate volitional formations that lead to death, generate  volitional formations that lead to sorrow, lamentation, pain,  displeasure, and despair.” Volitions, thus, are habitual  latencies that predispose and motivate an individual to have a  certain type of experience while at the same time conditioning the  response to that experience.